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Explanatory note

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(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1980 so as to provide for:

(a)

the release or postponement of the enforcement of the Law Society’s charge under section 9(6) of the Legal Aid Act 1974 where, following matrimonial proceedings, either the charge arises on the assisted person’s home, or the court makes a lump sum or similar order so that the assisted person can buy a home; and

(b)

interest to accrue where enforcement of the charge is postponed.