The Civil Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) Regulations 1992
These Regulations amend the Civil Legal Aid (General) Regulations as follows:by amending regulation 16 as follows—permitting the solicitor of a minor who is able to sue on his own behalf to make an application for legal aid on behalf of that minor;allowing that solicitor to be treated as the minor’s agent, andremoving the requirement for those making applications for legal aid on behalf of minors and mental patients to sign an undertaking to pay contributions if so required by the Board( regulation 6);by amending the payment on account scheme in regulation 100 as follows—providing that a claim for a payment on account may be made within a period of 2 months before to 4 months after the date at which a payment falls due( regulation 7);providing for a solicitor to receive a payment on account after 12 months have elapsed since issue of the certificate and maintaining the maximum payment allowable to solicitors at 54 % for the financial year 1992—93 from 1st December 1992. (Thereafter the maximum payment increases at intervals up to 75% as previously prescribed, but these maxima are now delayed by one financial year) (regulation 7). The scheme is phased in by transitional arrangements spanning September to December 1992 (regulation 3). [Provisions affecting the Bar remain unchanged];by providing for representation by means of contracts in multi-party actions involving personal injury claims(regulations 4 and 9);by amending regulation 12(3) to remove a reference to a certificate issued on a form of undertaking under paragraph (2) of that regulation which was overlooked when paragraph (2) itself was omitted by an earlier amending instrument (S.I. 1991/2036) (regulation 5).