{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-funding-amendment-order-2009/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-funding-amendment-order-2009/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/1843",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Defence Service (Funding) (Amendment) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-funding-amendment-order-2009",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the Criminal Defence Service (Funding) Order 2007, which makes provision for the funding and remuneration of services provided as part of the Criminal Defence Service. The Order—\nprovides for the fees to be payable for work done under provisional representation orders (articles 3 and 6);\nclarifies the situations in which a case (including a Very High Cost Case) is or is not transferred and makes other provisions relating to cases which cease to be Very High Cost Cases (articles 3, 8, 11, 12, 18 to 21 and 29);\nintroduces a cap on the number of pages of prosecution evidence, where the number of pages is used to determine certain fees, but provides for a special preparation fee where the cap is exceeded (articles 14 to 17 and 28);\nprovides for the fees to be payable where a case is transferred before sentence (article 22);\nintroduces a new fixed fee for certain hearings subsequent to sentence (articles 23 and 27);\nextends the fee for proceedings relating to breaches of Crown Court orders to all litigators, whether or not they represented the defendant in the earlier proceedings (articles 24 and 25);\nincreases the fixed fees relating to appeals against sentence, appeals against conviction and committals for sentence (article 26);\nmakes minor amendments (articles 4, 5, 7, 9, 10 and 13).\nAn impact assessment has not been prepared for this instrument as it has no impact on businesses, charities or voluntary bodies.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1843/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:27:38.249248+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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