{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-legal-aid-remuneration-amendment-regulations-2023/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2023/97",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-legal-aid-remuneration-amendment-regulations-2023",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 2013",
  "text": "(1) The Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 2013 are amended as follows.\n(2) At the end of sub-paragraph (b) of regulation 4(8) (claims for fees by advocates – Crown Court), insert “, and for this purpose “trial” excludes any cross-examination or re-examination to which paragraph 13A(3) of Schedule 1 applies.”.\n(3) At the end of sub-paragraph (b) of regulation 18(7) (interim payments in cases awaiting determination of fees), insert “, and for this purpose “trial” excludes any cross-examination or re-examination to which paragraph 13A(3) of Schedule 1 applies.”.\n(4) In sub-paragraph (a) of regulation 21(8) (hardship payments), after “commenced”, in both places it appears, insert “, and for this purpose “trial” excludes any cross-examination or re-examination to which paragraph 13A(3) of Schedule 1 applies.”.\n(5) At the end of sub-paragraph (b) of regulation 22(3) (computation of final claim where an interim payment has been made), insert “, and for this purpose “trial” excludes any cross-examination or re-examination to which paragraph 13A(3) of Schedule 1 applies.”.\n(6) At the end of sub-paragraph (b) of regulation 23(4) (payment of fees to advocates – Crown Court), insert “, and for this purpose “trial” excludes any cross-examination or re-examination to which paragraph 13A(3) of Schedule 1 applies.”.\n(7) After paragraph 13 of Schedule 1, insert—\n“Fee for video recorded cross-examination or re-examination\n13A. (1) The fee payable to the trial advocate per case to which paragraph (2) applies in respect of all cross-examination to which paragraph (3) applies is £670.\n(2) This paragraph applies to any case where a special measures direction provides for a video recording to be admitted under section 28 (video recorded cross-examination) of the 1999 Act.\n(3) This sub-paragraph applies to a cross-examination —\n(a) which is recorded by means of video recording; and\n(b) where such a recording is admissible, so far as it relates to any such cross-examination, as evidence of the witness under cross-examination, by virtue of a special measures direction.\n(4) In this paragraph—\n““the 1999 Act” is the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999;\n“cross-examination” includes re-examination; and\n“special measures direction” has the meaning given in section 33(1) (interpretation etc of Chapter 1) of the 1999 Act.””.\n(8) At the end of paragraph (b) of paragraph 17(7) of Schedule 1 (fees for special preparation), insert “, and for this purpose “trial” excludes any cross-examination or re-examination to which paragraph 13A(3) of Schedule 1 applies.”.\n(9) At the end of paragraph (b) of paragraph 18(6) of Schedule 1 (fees for wasted preparation), insert “, and for this purpose “trial” excludes any cross-examination or re-examination to which paragraph 13A(3) of Schedule 1 applies.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2013/435, amended by S.I. 2015/882; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1999 c. 23."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/97/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:50:12.071553+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."
}