2020 No. 472  LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES  S T A T U T O R Y I N S T R U M E N T S The Criminal Legal Aid (Coronavirus, Remuneration)  (Amendment) Regulations 2020  Made - - - - 28th April 2020  Laid before Parliament 30th April 2020  Coming into force 1st May 2020  The Lord Chancellor makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections  2(3), 41(1) and (3) of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012( a ).  1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Criminal Legal Aid (Coronavirus, Remuneration)  (Amendment) Regulations 2020 and come into force on 1st May 2020.  2. —(1) The Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 2013( b ) are amended as follows.  Citation and commencement  Amendment of the Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 2013  (2) In regulation 21 (hardship payments)—  (a) in paragraph (2)(b), for “six months” substitute “one month”; and  (b) in paragraph (6), for “£5,000” substitute “£450”.  Transitional provision  3.  The amendments made by these Regulations apply only in respect of applications for a  hardship payment made on or after the day on which these Regulations come into force.  Alex Chalk Parliamentary Under Secretary of State  Ministry of Justice  28th April 2020  ( a ) 2012 c.10  ( b ) S.I. 2013/435, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations. 