# Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order.)
This Order amends the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981:—
(a) to provide that
Article 10(5B) (which provides that legal aid must be granted irrespective of the means and merits tests where a child is brought before a court under Article 44 of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (secure accommodation));
Article 10(5C) (which provides that legal aid must be granted irrespective of the means and merits tests to a child, his parents and anyone with parental responsibility for him in relation to proceedings under Articles 50, 62, 63 or 64 of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (orders relating to the care, supervision, assessment or emergency protection of children)); and
Article 10(5E) (which provides that legal aid must be granted irrespective of the merits test to any person joined or who has applied to be joined as party to the proceedings mentioned in Article 10(5C))
do not apply where the proceedings are before a court of summary jurisdiction and where assistance by way of representation has been granted;
(b) provide that legal aid must be granted irrespective of the means test for an appeal against an order under Article 50 of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 where assistance by way of representation has been granted without regard to the means and merits tests (by virtue of regulations made under Article 5(4A) of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981) for the proceedings in which the order was made.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/482/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-advice-and-assistance-amendment-order-northern-ireland-1996/note
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