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The Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2000

S.I. 2000/2824 · Made 16 October 2000

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LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

Made 16th October 2000

Laid before Parliament 17th October 2000

Coming into force 18th October 2000

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 2, 34 and 43 of the Legal Aid Act 1988f1, hereby makes the following Regulations.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1988 c. 34; sections 2 and 34 were amended by the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41), Schedule 18, paragraphs 61 and 63. Section 43 is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meanings assigned to the words “prescribed” and “regulations”.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment of the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) Regulations 1989
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 18th October 2000.

2Amendment of the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) Regulations 1989

In regulation 48(13)(c) of the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) Regulations 1989f1, before “a High Court judge” there shall be inserted “the registrar,”.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

David Lock

Parliamentary Secretary

Lord Chancellor’s Department

Dated 16th October 2000

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend regulation 48 of the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) Regulations 1989 to permit the Registrar of Criminal Appeals to make or amend a legal aid order so as to provide for the services of a Queen’s Counsel or of more than one advocate in the Court of Appeal.