Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011
PART 2 Civil Legal Aid | ||
Amendment of section 26 of Civil Legal Aid Act 1995. |
3.— Section 26 of the Civil Legal Aid Act 1995 is amended— | |
(a) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (3A) (inserted by section 78(b) of the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2008 ): | ||
“(3B) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Board shall grant legal advice to a person who is an alleged victim of a human trafficking offence in relation to— | ||
(a) any matter connected with the commission of the human trafficking offence (whether or not a prosecution for that offence has been instituted), | ||
(b) any matter connected with the commission of any other offence of which the person is alleged to be a victim, being an offence (whether or not a human trafficking offence) that is alleged to have been committed in the course of, or otherwise in connection with, the commission of the human trafficking offence, or | ||
(c) without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (a) or (b), the prosecution of the human trafficking offence or of the other offence referred to in paragraph (b).”, | ||
and | ||
(b) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (7): | ||
“(8) In this section, ‘human trafficking offence’ means— | ||
(a) an offence under section 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 11 of the Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Act 2008 , | ||
(b) an offence under section 3 (other than subsections (2A) and (2B)) of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998 .”. |