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# 2020 No. 472 

# LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES 

The Criminal Legal Aid (Coronavirus, Remuneration) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 

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Coming into force 1st May 2020 

The Lord Chancellor makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2(3), 41(1) and (3) of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012( a ). 

## Citation and commencement 

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Criminal Legal Aid (Coronavirus, Remuneration) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 and come into force on 1st May 2020. 

## Amendment of the Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 2013 

2. —(1) The Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 2013( b ) are amended as follows. 

(2) In regulation 21 (hardship payments)— 

(a) in paragraph (2)(b), for “six months” substitute “one month”; and 

(b) in paragraph (6), for “£5,000” substitute “£450”. 

## Transitional provision 

3.  The amendments made by these Regulations apply only in respect of applications for a hardship payment made on or after the day on which these Regulations come into force. 

28th April 2020 

Alex Chalk Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Ministry of Justice 

