# The Court Funds (Amendment) Rules 2000, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Rules)
These Rules amend the period, in rule 57 of the Court Funds Rules 1987, after which the Accountant General may carry over an unclaimed fund in court to an account of unclaimed balances, from five to ten years.
They also:
(i) remove obsolete references, in rules 2(2) and 37(3), to the Gross Income Fund of the Common Investment Scheme;
(ii) make amendments to rule 44(2) (dealing with the paying out of funds in court) consequential on the replacement of civil legal aid by the Community Legal Service; and
(iii) qualify the Accountant General’s obligation, in rule 44(2), to pay out money in court to a solicitor or to the Legal Services Commission, in line with the qualification to regulation 18(1) of the Community Legal Service (Costs) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/441).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2918/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/court-funds-amendment-rules-2000/note
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