Regulation 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Restraint Orders (Legal Aid Exception and Relevant Legal Aid Payments) Regulations 2015, and (subject to paragraphs (2) and (3)) they come into force on 1st June 2015.

Regulation 5(3) and (4) comes into force on the day on which section 55 of the 2009 Act^f1, so far as it inserts sections 47B and 47C into the 2002 Act, comes into force.

Regulation 5(7) comes into force on the day on which section 58 of the 2009 Act, so far as it inserts section 67D into the 2002 Act, comes into force.

In these Regulations—

• “the 2002 Act” means the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002;

• “the 2009 Act” means the Policing and Crime Act 2009;

• “confiscation order” means a confiscation order made under Part 2 of the 2002 Act (confiscation: England and Wales);

• “legal aid exception” has the meaning given in section 41(2A) of the 2002 Act (restraint orders)^f2;

• “realisable property” has the meaning given in section 83 of the 2002 Act (realisable property);

• “relevant legal aid payment” has the meaning given in section 41(2B) of the 2002 Act^f3;

• “restraint order” means a restraint order made under Part 2 of the 2002 Act.