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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-in-criminal-and-care-proceedings-general-amendment-no-4-regulations-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2647",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-in-criminal-and-care-proceedings-general-amendment-no-4-regulations-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThese Regulations amend the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) Regulations 1989 by extending the circumstances in which a court may order a legal aid contribution to be remitted or repaid. At present the Regulations provide for this only where the assisted person has been acquitted. The amendment extends the circumstances to those where the proceedings against him have been discontinued or withdrawn.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2647/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:43:28.722459+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."
}