These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st April 2001.
Specified date: 1 April 2001: see above.
In regulations 54(4) and 89(a) of the Civil Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1989 for the words “clerk to the justices”, in each place where they occur, there shall be substituted the words “justices' chief executive”.
Specified date: 1 April 2001: see reg 1.
Irvine of Lairg, C
28th February 2001
These Regulations amend the Civil Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1989 to transfer the administrative functions of justices' clerks under the Regulations to justices' chief executives in line with sections 90 (transfer of clerks' functions to chief executives) and 91 (accounting etc functions of chief executives) of, and Schedule 13 to, the Access to Justice Act 1999 which make corresponding transfers in primary legislation.
Subsection (5) of section 90 provides that for the purposes of that section the administrative functions of justices' clerks are all of their functions apart from those which are legal functions within the meaning given by section 48(2) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (c 25), as substituted by section 89(1) of the 1999 Act.
