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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-criminal-defence-service-representation-orders-appeals-etc-regulations-2006/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2006/0110747410",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Defence Service (Representation Orders: Appeals etc.) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-criminal-defence-service-representation-orders-appeals-etc-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Access to Justice Act 1999;\n“appropriate officer” means—\nin a magistrates’ court, the justices’ clerk or the designated officer;\nin the Crown Court, a court manager or a court officer designated by him to act on his behalf for the purposes of these Regulations;\nin the Court of Appeal—\nthe Registrar of Criminal Appeals or the Head of the Civil Appeals Office, as appropriate; or\nin either case, a court officer designated by him to act on his behalf for the purposes of these Regulations;\n“the Commission” means the Legal Services Commission established under section 1 of the Act;\n“representation authority” has the same meaning as in the Criminal Defence Service (Representation Orders and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2006;\n“representation order” means a document granting a right to representation under section 14 of the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/xxxx."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2006/0110747410/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:20:53.736184+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."
}