{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-regulator-tribunal-legal-assistance-scheme-costs-regulations-2005/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-regulator-tribunal-legal-assistance-scheme-costs-regulations-2005/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/782",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions Regulator Tribunal (Legal Assistance Scheme – Costs) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-regulator-tribunal-legal-assistance-scheme-costs-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Pensions Act 2004;\n“advocate” means a barrister, or a solicitor who has obtained a higher courts advocacy qualification in accordance with regulations and rules of conduct of the Law Society of England and Wales or the Law Society of Northern Ireland;\n“appropriate officer” means a costs officer of the Supreme Court Costs Office;\n“assisted person” means a person in receipt of legal assistance;\n“costs judge” means—\n(a) in England and Wales, a taxing master of the Supreme Court; and\n(b) in Northern Ireland, the Master (Taxing Office);\n“legal assistance” means legal assistance in connection with proceedings which are before the Tribunal pursuant to a reference, and with regard to which a determination of the Tribunal disposing of the reference has not yet been made, and includes advice, assistance and representation for the purpose of those proceedings;\n“legal assistance order” means a document granting a right to legal assistance in respect of proceedings before the Tribunal;\n“the main hearing” means the hearing at which a decision of the Tribunal disposing of the reference is made;\n“reference” means—\n(a) in England and Wales, a reference to the Tribunal under section 96(3) or 99(7) of the Act; or\n(b) in Northern Ireland, a reference to the Tribunal under Article 91(3) or 94(7) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005;\n“the Regulator” means the Pensions Regulator established under section 1 of the Act;\n“representative” means a solicitor or an advocate; and\n“the Tribunal” means the Pensions Regulator Tribunal established under section 102 of the Act, and includes any person authorised by it to act on its behalf.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/255 (N.I.1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/22",
      "affecting_title": "The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2010"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/782/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:02:26.863141+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."
}