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Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

S.R. 1997/342 · Made 18 July 1997

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LEGAL AID AND ADVICE

Made 18th July 1997

To be laid before Parliament

Coming into operation 18th August 1997

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 14, 22 and 27 of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981f1 and now vested in himf2, and with the concurrence of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1981/228 (N.I. 8); Article 27 is an interpretation provision and is recited because of the meaning assigned to the words “prescribed” and “Regulations”

f2

S.I. 1982/159

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Transitional Provisions
  3. 3Amendment to Schedule 1
  4. Signature
  5. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation on 18th August 1997.

2Transitional Provisions

These Regulations shall not apply to applications for advice and assistance made before 18th August 1997.

3Amendment to Schedule 1

Schedule 1 to the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981f1 shall be amended as follows—

(a)

after paragraph 7A there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“7B

In computing the capital of the person concerned there shall be left out of account any arrears of payments made under Article 15A of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972f2.”;

(b)

in paragraph 8(c), after head (iii) there shall be added the following head—

“(iv)

a payment made under Article 15A of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972.”.

Signature

Irvine of Lairg, C.

Dated 18th July 1997

We concur

Jim Dowd

Jon Owen Jones

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

Dated 25th July 1997

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981 so as to provide that a payment made under Article 15A of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 shall be disregarded in computing disposable income and capital.