{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-4",
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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": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Repeated refusal of certificates",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 8 of the principal regulations (repeated refusal of certificates) shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (2) (power to make a direction that no consideration be given to future applications) for the words from “either” to the end there shall be substituted “to any future application by that person for a certificate with regard to any particular matter”.\n(3) After paragraph (5) there shall be inserted –\n“(6) Where the Commission makes a prohibitory direction in respect of any person, that person may apply for the direction to be varied or revoked.\n(7) Any application under paragraph (6) shall be made in writing.\n(8) On receipt of an application under paragraph (6), the Commission shall consider whether to vary or revoke the prohibitory direction; and shall give notice of its decision to the applicant.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/438/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:00:56.223906+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."
}