Regulation 3 Amendments to the Legal Advice and Assistance (Scope) Regulations 1989

In regulation 7(3), for the words from “the hearing of” to “Magistrates' Courts Act 1980”^f1 there shall be substituted “committal proceedings”.

For regulation 7(4) there shall be substituted the following:—

“(4)

Part III also applies to ABWOR given to a party to proceedings in a magistrates' court where he is before the court as a result of a failure—

(a)

to pay a fine or other sum which he was ordered to pay; or

(b)

to obey an order of the court,

and such failure is likely to lead to his being at risk of a term of imprisonment being fixed in his case (whether at the hearing for which ABWOR is given or subsequently).”.