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Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

S.R. 2004/180 · Made 4 April 2004

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LEGAL AID AND ADVICE

Made 4th April 2004

To be laid before Parliament

Coming into operation 17th 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 cases under the Prison and Young Offenders Centre Rules (Northern Ireland) 1995
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 17th May 2004.

2Assistance by way of representation for certain cases under the Prison and Young Offenders Centre Rules (Northern Ireland) 1995

Regulation 17(3)(b) of the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981f1 shall be amended as follows –

(1)

After the words “the subject of the hearing”, in sub-paragraph (v), there shall be added the word “, or”;

(2)

After sub-paragraph (v), there shall be added the following sub-paragraph –

“(vi)

in respect of proceedings under Part XIIIA of the Prison and Young Offenders Centre Rules (Northern Ireland) 1995f2”.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

Lord Filkin

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department for Constitutional Affairs

Dated 4th April 2004

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend regulation 17(3) of the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981 to include proceedings under Part XIIIA of the Prison and Young Offenders Centre Rules (Northern Ireland) 1995 as proceedings which attract assistance by way of representation.