Paragraph 2

England and Wales

In section 20(2)(e) of the 1974 Act (regulation of charge on property)—

(a)

after the words “receiving advice or assistance or legal aid ” there shall be inserted the words “and regulating the release or postponement of the enforcement of any charge (however created) for the benefit of the legal aid fund ”; and

(b)

at the end there shall be inserted the words

“; and
(iii)
requiring interest to be charged at a prescribed rate in circumstances where enforcement of a charge for the benefit of the legal aid fund is postponed”.

Notes on Schedule 8

Textual amendments

F1: Sch. 8 repealed (1.4.2000) by 1999 c. 22, s. 106, Sch. 15 Pt. I (with Sch. 14 paras. 7(2), 36(9)); S.I. 2000/774, art. 2(c), Sch. (with transitional provisions in arts. 3-5)