# The Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment) Regulations 1991

S.I. 1991/635 · made 11 March 1991

These regulations amend the Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1989 by increasing the level of disposable income at which no contribution is payable from £2,645 to £2,860.

Made under: Legal Aid Act 1988 (Section 15, Section 16, Section 34, Section 43)

## Introductory text

LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made 11th March 1991
Laid before Parliament 18th March 1991
Coming into force 8th April 1991
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 15(1), 16, 34 and 43 of the Legal Aid Act 1988 and with the consent of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

## 1 

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 8th April 1991.

## 2 

(1) These Regulations shall apply to applications for legal aid where the period of computation begins on or after 8th April 1991.
(2) Assessments and reassessments made in respect of applications where the period of coniputation begins before 8th April 1991 shall be made as if these Regulations had not come into force.
(3) In this regulation “period of computation” has the meaning assigned by regulation 3 of the Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1989.

## 3 

In regulation 4(4)(a) of the Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1989 for the figure “£2,645” there shall be substituted the figure “£2,860”.

## Signature

Mackay of Clashfern, C.
Dated 8th March 1991
We consent,
Thomas Sackville
Irvine Patrick
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
Dated 11th March 1991

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These regulations amend the Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1989 by increasing the level of disposable income at which no contribution is payable from £2,645 to £2,860.

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