Article 1 Title, commencement and interpretation

This Order may be cited as the Legal Aid (Northern Ireland) Order 2005.

Except as provided by paragraph (3), this Order comes into operation on the day after the day on which it is made.

Paragraph 8 of Schedule 1, and Article 3(1) so far as relating to it, come into operation on the day appointed under Article 1(2) of the Access to Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 for the coming into operation of Article 12(5) of that Order.

The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 (c. 33) applies to this Order as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.