{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-advice-and-assistance-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-31",
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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/31",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Resolution of doubts under Articles 28 to 30",
  "text": "If, on a question of granting a person free legal aid under Article 28, 28A, 29 or 30, there is a doubt whether his means are sufficient to enable him to obtain legal aid or whether it is desirable in the interests of justice that he should have free legal aid, the doubt shall be resolved in favour of granting him free legal aid.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "2002 c. 26"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nia/2011/24",
      "affecting_title": "Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2011"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/228/article/31",
    "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."
}