# Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

S.R. 2005/502 · made 9 November 2005

These Regulations amend the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981 to insert references to the legal status of civil partners, as created by the provisions of the Civil Partnership Act 2004, to ensure an application for legal advice and assistance from any person who is in a civil partnership is determined in a manner consistent with the existing Regulations.

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## Introductory text

LEGAL AID AND ADVICE
Made 9th November 2005
To be laid before Parliament
Coming into operation 5th December 2005
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 1981, and now vested in him, hereby makes the following Regulations:

## 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 and shall come into operation on 5th December 2005.

## 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations “the principal regulations” means the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981.

## 3 Amendment to the principal regulations

In regulation 3 of the principal regulations after the definition of “child” there shall be inserted—
““civil partner” has the meaning assigned to it by section 1 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004;”

## 4 Amendment to the principal regulations

In regulation 8(2)(b) of the principal regulations after the words “his spouse” there shall be inserted the words “or civil partner”.

## 5 Amendment to the principal regulations

In regulation 11 of the principal regulations after the words “his spouse” there shall be inserted the words “or civil partner”.

## 6 Amendment to the principal regulations

In paragraph 1A of Schedule 1 to the principal regulations after the words “as a couple” there shall inserted the words “or civil partners”.

## 7 Amendment to the principal regulations

In paragraphs 6(b), 6(b)(i) and 6(b)(ii) of Schedule 1 to the principal regulations after each instance of the word “spouse” there shall be inserted the words “or civil partner”.

## 8 Amendment to the principal regulations

In paragraph 7(c) of Schedule 1 to the principal regulations after the words “a spouse” there shall be inserted the words “or civil partner”.

## 9 Amendment to the principal regulations

In paragraph 8(b) of Schedule 1 to the principal regulations for the words “spouse of the person concerned, if the spouses” there shall be substituted the words “spouse or civil partner of the person concerned, if the spouses or civil partners”.

## 10 Amendment to the principal regulations

In paragraph 8(b)(i) of Schedule 1 to the principal regulations after the word “spouse” there shall be inserted the words “or civil partner”.

## 11 Amendment to the principal regulations

In paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 to the principal regulations for the words “a spouse who is living apart, of a former spouse” there shall be substituted the words “a spouse or civil partner who is living apart, of a former spouse or former civil partner”.

## 12 Amendment to the principal regulations

In paragraph (a) of Schedule 4 to the principal regulations for the words “a spouse, former spouse” there shall be substituted the words “a spouse or civil partner, former spouse or former civil partner”.

## Signature

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
Bridget Prentice
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department for Constitutional Affairs
Dated 1st November 2005
We approve
Gillian Merron
Tom Watson
Two of the Lord’s Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
Dated 9th November 2005

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)
These Regulations amend the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981 to insert references to the legal status of civil partners, as created by the provisions of the Civil Partnership Act 2004, to ensure an application for legal advice and assistance from any person who is in a civil partnership is determined in a manner consistent with the existing Regulations.

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