The Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (Costs) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1999
These Regulations amend the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (Costs) Regulations 1989 so as to provide that where a solicitor claims that regulation 44(7) of the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) Regulations 1989 should be applied in relation to an item of work and the defendant was acquitted and granted a defendant’s costs order under section 16 of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985, the solicitor must certify that no claim for costs incurred before the legal aid order was made has been or will be made from central funds. They also make a number of minor amendments to the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (Costs) Regulations 1989 resulting from changes made by the introduction of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998.