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Explanatory note

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(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Legal Aid (Information about Financial Resources) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/628 – “the 2013 Regulations”), which make provision in relation to information requests under section 22 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.

Regulation 3 inserts new regulation 4A into the 2013 Regulations, which enables the relevant authority (in practice, the Director of Legal Aid Casework) to request from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency register information as to whether an individual is the registered keeper of a vehicle identified by a particular Vehicle Registration Mark (VRM), and if so, any particulars contained in the register in relation to that VRM.

Regulation 4 amends the Schedule to the 2013 Regulations to provide that armed forces independence payment is a prescribed benefit for the purposes of those Regulations.