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The Criminal Defence Service (Funding) (Amendment No. 2) Order 2001

S.I. 2001/1256 · Made 28 March 2001

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LEGAL SERVICES COMMISSION, ENGLAND AND WALES

Made 28th March 2001

Laid before Parliament 29th March 2001

Coming into force 2nd April 2001

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 14(3) and 105 of, and paragraph 9 of Schedule 14 to, the Access to Justice Act 1999f1, having had regard to the matters specified in section 25(3) and having consulted the General Council of the Bar and the Law Society, makes the following Order:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1999 c. 22.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Citation and commencement
  3. 3Amendments to the Criminal Defence Service (Funding) Order 2001
  4. 4Amendments to the Criminal Defence Service (Funding) Order 2001
  5. 5Amendments to the Criminal Defence Service (Funding) Order 2001
  6. 6Amendments to the Criminal Defence Service (Funding) Order 2001
  7. 7Amendments to the Criminal Defence Service (Funding) Order 2001
  8. Signature
  9. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Criminal Defence Service (Funding) (Amendment No. 2) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 2nd April 2001.

2Citation and commencement

In this Order, an article referred to by number alone means the article so numbered in the Criminal Defence Service (Funding) Order 2001f1.

3Amendments to the Criminal Defence Service (Funding) Order 2001

In article 2, in the definition of “a Very High Cost Case”, for the words after “decided by” there shall be substituted “the Commission.”.

4Amendments to the Criminal Defence Service (Funding) Order 2001

Article 6 shall be deleted.

5Amendments to the Criminal Defence Service (Funding) Order 2001

In article 9, after “category” there shall be inserted “and the appropriate level of fee earner in Schedule 5.”.

6Amendments to the Criminal Defence Service (Funding) Order 2001

In article 14, the words “or, as the case may be, the appropriate officer” shall be deleted each time they occur.

7Amendments to the Criminal Defence Service (Funding) Order 2001

In Schedule 5, paragraphs 1.1 and 2.1, the words “or (as the case may be) the appropriate officer” shall be deleted.

Signature

Signed by the authority of the Lord Chancellor

Willy Bach

Parliamentary Secretary,

Lord Chancellor’s Department

28th March 2001

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order is made in order to delete the provision in article 6 of the Criminal Defence Service (Funding) Order whereby representation which is funded by the Lord Chancellor in a Very High Cost Case is to be remunerated at rates no higher than those set out in Schedule 5 to that Order. The rates set out in Schedule 5 are those to be paid for Very High Cost Cases which are governed by a contract with the Legal Services Commission.