Part 5: Terrorism Legal aid Section 90: Legal aid for individuals convicted of terrorism offences
This section amends the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO 2012) by inserting a new section 9A which will restrict access to civil legal aid for convicted terrorists.
	Subsection (3) contains the details on how the restriction on civil legal services described in Part 1 of Schedule 1 to LASPO 2012 will work. New section 9A is framed as the circumstances when the restriction on accessing civil legal aid will not apply, and so if one or more of the conditions A-G are met, then legal aid can be made available.
	The restriction on accessing civil legal aid will not apply where one of the conditions listed within new section 9A has been met. The conditions are A) where date of conviction is before 19 February 2001; B) the convicted terrorist was under 18 when they applied for civil legal aid; C) the date of conviction was more than 30 years before the application for civil legal aid; D) the individual was under 18 on the date of their conviction and the date of the conviction was more than 15 years before the application for civil legal aid; E) where the convicted terrorist applied for civil legal aid before the commencement date of the National Security Bill 2022 or prior to their actual conviction; F) where the convicted terrorist qualifies for civil legal services in accordance with exceptional case funding scheme set out in section 10 of LASPO 2012; and G) where the convicted terrorist applies for specific civil legal services relating to domestic violence and housing where they were at any time in the five years preceding their application, or at any time after their application, victims of domestic violence, or are at risk of being victims of domestic violence.
	Subsection (3) also defines what a terrorism offence is for the purposes of this new section 9A, and which terrorism offence is relevant for the purposes of the restriction where a terrorist has been convicted of multiple terrorism offences. In addition, subsection 90(3) creates a power for the Lord Chancellor to specify when an individual has applied for civil legal aid for the purposes of the new section 9A.
	Subsection (4) amends section 12 of LASPO 2012. The effect of this is to allow the Lord Chancellor to make regulations relating to the making and withdrawal of legal aid determinations under the new section 9A, as can be done for determinations under section 9 and section 10 of LASPO 2012.