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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2003/438",
  "legislation_title": "Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations.)\nThese regulations amend the Legal Aid (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1965.\nThe amendments made by regulations 2 and 3 are consequential on the transfer of functions from the Law Society of Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Legal Services Commission by the Access to Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2003.\nRegulation 4 amends regulation 8 of the Legal Aid (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1965 (repeated refusal of certificates) by removing the power to direct that no consideration be given to any further application whatsoever by a person, and by providing for the variation or revocation of directions by the Commission.\nRegulation 5 confers power on the Commission to reinstate certificates which have been revoked or discharged.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "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."
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