Statement by the Delegation of the Russian Federation in response to the report by the Representative on Freedom of the Media, Ms. Dunja Mijatović

Subsection (1) of section 13 of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22) (duty of Legal Services Commission to fund advice and assistance as part of Criminal Defence Service) shall be treated as having been enacted with the substitution of the following for paragraph (b) and the words after it—

Regulations under subsection (1) of section 13 (as amended above) may include provision treating them as having come into force at the same time as that subsection.