# The Criminal Legal Aid (Financial Resources) (Amendment) Regulations 2013, Regulation 4: Amendments to the 2013 Regulations


In regulation 2—
(a) omit the definition of “the 2002 Act”;
(b) at the appropriate place insert each of the following definitions—
“contribution order” means a document which records a determination by the Director under the Criminal Legal Aid (Contribution Orders) Regulations 2013;
“Crown Court proceedings” means any criminal proceedings—
(a) in respect of an offence for which an individual may be, or has been, sent by a magistrates’ court to the Crown Court for trial;
(b) relating to an offence in respect of which a bill of indictment has been preferred by virtue of section 2(2)(b) of the Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1933; or
(c) which are to be heard in the Crown Court following an order by the Court of Appeal or the Supreme Court for a retrial;
“child care costs” means the costs of care, other than excluded costs, provided by one or more of the following—
(a) a school on school premises, out of school hours;
(b) a local authority, out of school hours—
(i) for a child who is not disabled, in respect of the period beginning on their eighth birthday and ending on the day preceding the first Monday in September following their 15th birthday; or
(ii) for a child who is disabled, in respect of the period beginning on their eighth birthday and ending on the day preceding the first Monday in September following their 16th birthday;
(c) a child care provider approved in accordance with the Tax Credit (New Category of Child Care Provider) Regulations 1999;
(d) persons registered under Part 3 of the Childcare Act 2006 or Part 2 of the Children and Families (Wales) Measure 2010;
(e) persons referred to in article 11, 12 or 14 of the Child Minding and Day Care Exceptions (Wales) Order 2010, working in schools or establishments referred to in those articles; and
(f) persons prescribed in regulations made pursuant to section 12(4) of the Tax Credits Act 2002;
“excluded costs” means costs paid—
(a) in respect of the child’s compulsory education;
(b) by an individual to that individual’s partner (or vice versa), in respect of any child for which either (or both) of them is responsible in accordance with regulation 20 of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006; or
(c) in respect of care provided by a relative of the child wholly or mainly in the child’s home;
“the General Regulations” means the Criminal Legal Aid (General) Regulations 2013;
“magistrates’ court proceedings” means any criminal proceedings—
(a) referred to in section 14(a) to (g) of the Act or in regulation 9(a) to (q) or (s) to (v) of the General Regulations, to the extent that such proceedings take place in the magistrates’ court; or
(b) in which an individual is committed to the Crown Court for sentence, but only where that individual did not apply for, or was not granted, representation under section 16 of the Act (representation for criminal proceedings) for the proceedings that took place in the magistrates’ court;”;
(c) in paragraph (b) of the definition of “period of calculation”, for “Part 3” substitute “Parts 3 and 4”;
(d) in paragraph (c) of the definition of “qualifying benefit”, for “the 2002 Act” substitute “the State Pension Credit Act 2002”; and
(e) in the definition of “relative”, omit paragraph (a).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2791/regulation/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-legal-aid-financial-resources-amendment-regulations-2013/regulation-4
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