{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-advice-and-assistance-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-advice-and-assistance-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/461",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-advice-and-assistance-amendment-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "After paragraph 7 of Schedule 2, there shall be inserted the following new paragraph—\n“7A In computing the capital of the person concerned where that person is (directly or indirectly) in receipt of income support and assistance by way of representation is to be given, there shall also be left out of account any sum which exceeds the sum for the time being specified in section 1(1) of the Act in relation to assistance by way of representation.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "By S.I. 1986/643, the sum specified in section 1(1) of the Legal Aid Act 1974 in relation to assistance by way of representation is £3000."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/461/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:10:04.193541+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}