{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-functions-order-2000/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1929",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Aid (Functions) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-functions-order-2000",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order, unless the context requires otherwise:\n“the Act” means the Legal Aid Act 1988;\n“the Board” means the Legal Aid Board;\n“the Commission” means the Legal Services Commission established under section 1 of the Access to Justice Act 1999; and\n“costs” means, in the case of a solicitor, the fees and disbursements payable under section 25 of the Act and, in the case of counsel, the fees payable under that section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1999 c. 22. By virtue of Schedule 14, paragraph 2 to the Access to Justice Act 1999, the functions of the Legal Aid Board were transferred to the Legal Services Commission on 1st April 2000 when section 1 of that Act came into force."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1929/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:05:41.371191+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."
}