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Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

S.R. 1999/200 · Made 26 April 1999

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LEGAL AID AND ADVICE

Made 26th April 1999

To be laid before Parliament

Coming into operation 1st June 1999

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 5(3) and 27 of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981f1 and now vested in himf2 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 word “regulations”

f2

S.I. 1982/159

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Assistance by way of representation for certain applications under the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1998
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

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

2Assistance by way of representation for certain applications under the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1998

In paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981f1 after sub-paragraph (j) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—

“(k)

for a sex offender order under Article 6 of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1998f2”.

Signature

Irvine of Lairg, C.

Dated 26th April 1999

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981 to extend assistance by way of representation to proceedings in a court of summary jurisdiction brought for an order under Article 6 of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1998.