Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

8: Clause 2, page 2, line 23, at end insert— ““( ) Before making regulations relating to the payment of remuneration to barristers and solicitors in accordance with subsection (3), the Lord Chancellor shall consult— (a) the Bar Council; (b) the Law Society of England and Wales; (c) the Institute of Legal Executives; and (d) organisations representing the legal advice movement. ( ) Where the Lord Chancellor makes regulations in accordance with subsection (3), he or she shall have regard to the need to secure the provision of services of the description to which the order relates by a sufficient number of competent persons and bodies.””