Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006
S.R. 2006/80 · Made 18 February 2006
LEGAL AID AND ADVICE
Made 18th February 2006
To be laid before Parliament
Coming into operation 27th March 2006
The Lord Chancellor makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 14, 22 and 27 of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981f1 and now vested in himf2:
Annotations to the whole text
Footnotes
- f1
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S.I. 1981/228 (N.I. 8); Article 27 is an interpretation provision and is recited because of the meaning assigned to the words “prescribed” and “regulations”
- f2
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S.I. 1982/159
Contents
1Citation and commencement
These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 and shall come into operation on 27th March 2006.
2Amendment to the principal regulations
In regulation 1(2) of the Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981f1 for “Department of Health and Social Services” substitute “Department for Social Development”.
Signature
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
Bridget Prentice
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department for Constitutional Affairs
Dated 18th February 2006
We approve
Gillian Merron
Tom Watson
Two of the Lord’s Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
Dated 27th February 2006
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981, as a consequence of the Departments (Northern Ireland) Order 1999, to substitute the Department for Social Development for the reference made to the Department of Health and Social Services.