{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-funding-order-2007/article-16",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1174",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Defence Service (Funding) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-funding-order-2007",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Determination of litigators’ disbursements",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (5), the appropriate officer must allow such disbursements claimed under article 6(2) as appear to him to have been reasonably incurred.\n(2) If the disbursements claimed are abnormally large by reason of the distance of the court or the assisted person’s residence or both from the litigator’s place of business, the appropriate officer may limit reimbursement of the disbursements to what otherwise would, having regard to all the circumstances, be a reasonable amount.\n(3) No question as to the propriety of any step or act in relation to which prior authority has been obtained under CDS Regulations may be raised on any determination of disbursements, unless the litigator knew or ought reasonably to have known that the purpose for which the authority was given had failed or had become irrelevant or unnecessary before the disbursements were incurred.\n(4) Where disbursements are reasonably incurred in accordance with and subject to the limit imposed by a prior authority given under CDS Regulations, no question may be raised on any determination of fees as to the amount of the payment to be allowed for the step or act in relation to which the authority was given.\n(5) Where disbursements are incurred in taking any steps or doing any act for which authority may be given under CDS Regulations, without such authority having been given or in excess of any fee so authorised, payment in respect of those disbursements may nevertheless be allowed on a determination of disbursements payable under article 6.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/2065",
      "affecting_title": "The Criminal Defence Service (Funding) (Amendment) Order 2011"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1174/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:55:19.074834+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."
}