{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-advice-and-assistance-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-3",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1981/228",
  "legislation_title": "Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-advice-and-assistance-northern-ireland-order-1981",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Persons eligible for advice and assistance",
  "text": "(1) Advice and assistance to which this Article applies shall, subject to and in accordance with the following provisions of this Part, be available for any person if—\n(a) his disposable income does not exceed£234 a week; or\n(b) he is (directly or indirectly) in receipt of income support, an income-based jobseeker's allowance (payable under the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995) or an income-related allowance under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 (employment and support allowance), or\n(c) he is in receipt of a guarantee credit under the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002,\nand in any case his disposable capital does not exceed £1,000 £3,000.\n(2) Regulations may provide that there shall be substituted—\n(a) for the weekly sum specified in paragraph (1) such other weekly sum as may be prescribed;\n(b) for the capital sum so specified, such other capital sum as may be prescribed.\n(3) Regulations made by virtue of paragraph (2)(b) may provide for the substitution of different capital sums in relation to—\n(a) advice and assistance other than assistance by way of representation; and\n(b) assistance by way of representation.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 2 (to the extent that it remains in operation) repealed (1.4.2015) by Access to Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/435), arts. 1(2), 49(5), Sch. 5 (with transitional provisions and savings in art. 48, Sch. 3); S.R. 2015/194, art. 2, Sch. (with transitional provisions and savings in art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 3(1)(a) substituted (6.4.2009) by Legal Advice and Assistance (Financial Conditions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009/103), reg. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "1986 NI 18"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 3(1)(b) substituted (27.10.2008) by Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/412), reg. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 3(1)(c) and word inserted (7.1.2013) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 24), ss. 82(2)(a), 111(3); S.R. 2012/449, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in art. 3(1) substituted (7.1.2013) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 24), ss. 82(2)(b), 111(3); S.R. 2012/449, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "SR 1992/106"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "in relation to assistance by way of representation, SR 1986/241"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "1986 NI 12"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "nia/2010/13",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/228/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:18.959398+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."
}