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Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

S.R. 2006/79 · Made 18 February 2006

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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 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

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

S.I. 1982/159

Contents

  1. 1Citation, commencement and interpretation
  2. 2Amendment to the principal regulations
  3. 3Amendment to the principal regulations
  4. Signature
  5. Explanatory note

1Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 and shall come into operation on 27th March 2006.

(2)

In these Regulations “principal regulations” means the Legal Aid (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1965f1.

2Amendment to the principal regulations

In regulation 3B(1) of the principal regulations after the words “judgments in civil and commercial matters” there shall be inserted the following words – “or who applies for either the registration of or the registration and enforcement of a judgment under Council Regulation (EC) No. 2201/2003 of 27 November 2003 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility”.

3Amendment to the principal regulations

(1)

In each of the provisions in the principal regulations listed in paragraph (2), for “Department of Health and Social Services” substitute “Department for Social Development”.

(2)

The provisions referred to in paragraph (1) are regulations 1(2), 3(4)(b), 3(6), 4(6), 5(2), 5(4), 5(5)(b), 5(8), 6(3), 6(4), 6(5)(a), 6(5)(b), 6(6), 6(10)(b)(i), 7(b), 7(c), 9(1)(d), 10(1)(a), 11(1), 12(3)(a), 13(6), 13(7) and 18(2)(a).

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 (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1965 in order to provide that the means and merits test and the contribution conditions, which would otherwise apply under the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, are disapplied in respect of persons who make applications under Council Regulation (EC) No. 2201/2003. This will only apply if the person benefited from complete or partial legal aid or exemption from costs or expenses in the country in which the maintenance order was made or judgment given.

These Regulations also amend the 1965 Regulations, as a consequence of the Departments (Northern Ireland) Order 1999, to substitute the Department for Social Development for the references made to the Department of Health and Social Services.