The Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 2013 are amended as follows.
In regulation 3 (scope)—
in paragraph (2) for “County Court,” substitute “county court, to proceedings in the family court,”, and
for paragraph (3) substitute—
(3)Regulations 16 and 31 and Schedule 5 apply to proceedings in magistrates’ courts, to proceedings in the county court, to proceedings in the family court, to proceedings in the Crown Court, to proceedings in the High Court and to proceedings in the Court of Appeal.
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In Schedule 4 (rates payable for the claims specified in regulation 8), in each of the following provisions, after “High Court” insert “, the family court”—
paragraph 7(2) (representation in proceedings prescribed as criminal proceedings under section 14(h) of the Act);
the heading of the table following paragraph 7(2) (representation in prescribed proceedings in the High Court or a county court);
paragraph 7(3), and
paragraph 12(1)(b) (payment for assigned counsel).