{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-disclosure-of-information-regulations-2013/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-disclosure-of-information-regulations-2013/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/457",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Aid (Disclosure of Information) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-disclosure-of-information-regulations-2013",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Legal Aid And Advice, England And Wales\nMade 28th February 2013\nLaid before Parliament 5th March 2013\nComing into force 1st April 2013\nThe Lord Chancellor makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 28 and 35 of, and paragraphs 9 and 10 of Schedule 3 to, the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 42(1) of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10) (“the Act”) provides that in Part 1 of that Act “regulations” means regulations made by the Lord Chancellor."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraphs 9(3) and 10 of Schedule 3 to the Act (legal aid for legal persons) provide that in sections 28 and 35 of that Act references to an individual include a legal person."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2012 c. 10."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/457/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:02:39.874837+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}