{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2006/79",
  "legislation_title": "Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese 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.\nThese 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/79/note",
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  "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."
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