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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-advice-and-assistance-amendment-regulations-1990/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/486",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-advice-and-assistance-amendment-regulations-1990",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989 by—\n(1) increasing the disposable capital limit for eligibility for advice and assistance from £890 to £935 (regulation 3(1);\n(2) amending regulation 22(5) of the 1989 Regulations so that it no longer applies to ABWOR in respect of proceedings covered by regulation 9 of the Legal Advice and Assistance (Scope) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/550) (Mental Health Review Tribunal and board of prison visitors proceedings) (regulation 3(2));\n(3) amending paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 of the 1989 Regulations to allow account to be taken of resources of which the applicant has deprived himself for whatever reason (regulation 3(3));\n(4) amending the scale of contributions payable for legal advice and assistance (regulation 3(4)).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/486/note",
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  "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."
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