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Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

S.R. 2004/169 · Made 30 March 2004

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LEGAL AID AND ADVICE

Made 30th March 2004

To be laid before Parliament

Coming into operation 1st May 2004

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 5(3)(a), 22(1) 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 words “prescribed” and “regulations”

f2

S.I. 1982/159

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Assistance by way of representation for certain applications under the Sexual Offences Act 2003
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 1st May 2004.

2Assistance by way of representation for certain applications under the Sexual Offences Act 2003

For paragraph 2(k) of Schedule 3 to the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981f1 there shall be substituted the following new provision –

“(k)

for an order under sections 89, 90, 97, 100, 104, 108, 109, 114, 118, 123, 125 or 126 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003f2”.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

Lord Filkin

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department for Constitutional Affairs

Dated 30th March 2004.

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend Schedule 3 to the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981 to replace proceedings for a sex offender order under Article 6 of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 with specified proceedings under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 as proceedings which attract assistance by way of representation.