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The Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

S.I. 1999/813 · Made 12 March 1999

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LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

Made 12th March 1999

Laid before Parliament 16th March 1999

Coming into force 12th April 1999

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 15(1), 16, 34 and 43 of the Legal Aid Act 1988f1, makes the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1988 c. 34; sections 15, 16, 34 and 43 were amended by the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41), Schedule 17, paragraph 19 and Schedule 18, paragraphs 60, 61 and 63; and by the Family Law Act 1996 (c. 27), sections 26 and 29 and Schedule 8, paragraph 44. Section 43 is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meaning given to “regulations”.

Contents

  1. 1Citation, commencement and transitional provisions
  2. 2Amendments to the Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1989
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation, commencement and transitional provisions

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 12th April 1999.

(2)

These Regulations shall apply to applications for legal aid made on or after 12th April 1999 and applications made before that date shall be treated as if these Regulations had not come into force.

2Amendments to the Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1989

Regulation 4 of the Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1989f1 shall be amended by substituting in:

(a)

paragraph (2) for “£7,777”, “£7,940”;

(b)

paragraph (3) for “£8,571”, “£8,751”;

(c)

paragraph (4) for “£2,625”, “£2,680”.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

G.W. Hoon

Minister of State,

Lord Chancellor’s Department

Dated 7th March 1999

We consent

Jane Kennedy

Jim Dowd

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

Dated 12th March 1999

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1989 so as to increase the income limit for non-contributory civil legal aid from £2,625 to £2,680; and increase the upper income limit for eligibility from £8,571 to £8,751 for personal injury claims, and from £7,777 to £7,940 for other claims.