(1)These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Legal Aid (General) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st May 1997.
(2)In these Regulations, a regulation referred to by number alone means the regulation so numbered in the Civil Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1989.
2Amendments to the Civil Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1989#
In the Arrangement of Regulations, after the title to regulation 26 “Power to notify other parties of application.”, there shall be inserted the following:—“26A Meeting with a mediator in family matters.”
3Amendments to the Civil Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1989#
In regulation 3(1):—
(a)in the definition of “assessment officer” after the words “Secretary of State”, there shall be inserted the words “or the Board”; and
(b)after the definition of “patient”, there shall be inserted the following:—“• “recognised mediator” means a mediator who is recognised by the Board for the purposes of conducting a meeting described in section 15 (3F) of the Act;”
4Amendments to the Civil Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1989#
After regulation 26, there shall be inserted the following regulation:—“26A Subsection (3F) of section 15 of the Act shall not apply:—a where there is no recognised mediator available to the applicant or any other party to the proceedings to hold a meeting under that subsection; orb where:—i the applicant is likely to fulfil the conditions under which legal aid may be granted under the Act and these Regulations;ii it is in the interests of justice that the applicant should, as a matter of urgency, be granted legal aid; andiii an application for an emergency certificate under regulation 19 has been made.”
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