{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-in-criminal-and-care-proceedings-general-amendment-no-2-regulations-1994/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/3136",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-in-criminal-and-care-proceedings-general-amendment-no-2-regulations-1994",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) Regulations 1989 by—\n(1) setting out the relevant considerations and options available to courts when making or amending a legal aid order providing for the services of a Queen’s Counsel or for more than one counsel;\n(2) introducing a power to provide the assisted person with the services of three counsel where the prosecution is brought by the Serious Fraud Office;\n(3) imposing on each legal representative the duty to keep under review the continuing need for the services of more than one counsel, and\n(4) introducing a requirement to notify the court where a legal representative is of opinion that more than one counsel is no longer required.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/3136/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:21:12.829259+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."
}