{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-advice-and-assistance-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-advice-and-assistance-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-9.json",
  "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/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Persons eligible for legal aid",
  "text": "(1) Legal aid to which this Article applies shall, subject to and in accordance with the provisions of this Part, be available for any person whose disposable income does not exceed£10,955£9,937 a year; but a person may be refused legal aid if—\n(a) his disposable capital exceeds £8,560 £6,750; and\n(b) it appears that he can afford to proceed without legal aid.\n(2) Regulations may provide that there shall be substituted—\n(a) for the yearly sum specified in paragraph (1), such other yearly sum as may be prescribed;\n(b) for the capital sum so specified, such other capital sum as may be prescribed.",
  "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      "text": "Pt. 2 (to the extent that it remains in operation) repealed (1.4.2015) by Access to Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/435), arts. 1(2), 49(5), Sch. 5 (with transitional provisions and savings in art. 48,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. 9(1) (in connection with proceedings involving a personal injury) substituted (6.4.2009) by Legal Aid (Financial Conditions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009/104), reg. 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 9(1) (in any other case) substituted (6.4.2009) by Legal Aid (Financial Conditions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009/104), reg. 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "in connection with proceedings involving a personal injury, SR 1992/107"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "in any other case, SR 1992/107"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/228/article/9",
    "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."
}