# The Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1999

S.I. 1999/2089 · made 20 July 1999

These Regulations amend the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989 so as to extend those Regulations to advice and assistance given to persons in connection with investigations by H.M. Customs and Excise.

Made under: Legal Aid Act 1988 (Section 9, Section 34, Section 43)

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## Introductory text

LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made 20th July 1999
Laid before Parliament 22nd July 1999
Coming into force 1st September 1999
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 9, 34 and 43 of the Legal Aid Act 1988, having had regard to the matters specified in section 34(9) and having consulted the General Council of the Bar and the Law Society, and with the consent of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Regulations:

## 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 1st September 1999.

## 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations, “the 1989 Regulations” means the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989, and a Regulation referred to by number alone means the Regulation so numbered in those Regulations.

## 3 Amendments to the 1989 Regulations

In Regulation 3,
(a) after the definition of “Costs Regulations” the following shall be inserted:
““customs office” has the meaning assigned to it by article 2(1) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Application to Customs and Excise) Order 1985;
“customs officer” means officer as defined in article 2(1) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Application to Customs and Excise) Order 1985;”
(b) in the definition of “volunteer”:
(i) the words “or a customs office” shall be inserted after “police station” each time it appears; and
(ii) the words “or customs officer” shall be inserted after “constable” each time it appears.

## Signature

Signed by the authority of the Lord Chancellor
Keith Vaz
Parliamentary Secretary,
Lord Chancellor’s Department
Dated 14th July 1999
We consent,
Bob Ainsworth
Jim Dowd
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
Dated 20th July 1999

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989 so as to extend those Regulations to advice and assistance given to persons in connection with investigations by H.M. Customs and Excise.

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