{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-criminal-defence-service-representation-orders-appeals-etc-regulations-2006/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-criminal-defence-service-representation-orders-appeals-etc-regulations-2006/regulation-4.json",
  "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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Appeals: magistrates’ courts",
  "text": "(1) In this regulation “court” means the magistrates’ court in which the proceedings in respect of which the individual is seeking a representation order are being or are to be heard and includes a single justice.\n(2) An individual may appeal to the court against a decision to refuse to grant a representation order made on the grounds that the interests of justice do not require such an order to be granted.\n(3) The court must either—\n(a) uphold the decision; or\n(b) decide that it would be in the interests of justice for a representation order to be granted.\n(4) Where the court makes a decision under paragraph (3)(b), the individual may apply to the representation authority for a representation order; and—\n(a) if the individual states in writing, verified by a statement of truth, that his financial resources have not changed since the date of his original application so as to make him financially ineligible for a representation order, the representation authority must grant the order; or\n(b) if his financial resources may have so changed, the representation authority—\n(i) must determine whether the individual is financially eligible to be granted a representation order in accordance with the Criminal Defence Service (Financial Eligibility) Regulations 2006; and\n(ii) if he is so eligible, must grant the order.",
  "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/4",
    "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."
}