
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 2nd October 2000.
2 
In these Regulations a reference to any regulation or Schedule by number alone means the regulation or Schedule so numbered in the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) Regulations 1989.
3 
These Regulations shall apply to applications for legal aid made on or after 2nd October 2000, and applications before that date shall be treated as if these Regulations had not come into force.
4 
In the Arrangement of Regulations, after the entry for regulation 3 there shall be inserted:—“
3A 
Cases where assessment of financial resources is not required.”
5 
After regulation 3 there shall be inserted the following new regulation:—“
3A 
In the circumstances set out in regulation 4(2) and (3) of the Legal Aid Act 1988 (Modification) Regulations 2000 the following provisions of these Regulations shall not apply:—
(a) regulation 11(3);
(b) regulation 13;
(c) regulation 14(7);
(d) Part III;
(e) Schedules 3 and 4.”.
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
David Lock
Parliamentary Secretary
Lord Chancellor’s Department
Dated 31st July 2000We consent
Jim Dowd
Bob Ainsworth
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
Dated 10th August 2000