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The Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (Costs) (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2003

S.R. 2003/526 · Made 4 December 2003

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LEGAL AID AND ADVICE

Made 4th December 2003

To be laid before Parliament

Coming into operation 31st December 2003

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 36(3) of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981f1, and now vested in himf2, after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice and the Attorney General and with the approval of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Rules:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1981/228 (N.I. 8)

f2

S.I. 1982/159

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Alteration of date
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Rules may be cited as the Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (Costs) (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2003, and shall come into operation on 31st December 2003.

2Alteration of date

In rules 6(3) and 9(5)(a) of the Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (Costs) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1992f1 for the date “31st December 2003” there shall be substituted the date “1st July 2004”.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

Lord Filkin

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department for Constitutional Affairs

Dated 4th December 2003

We approve

Jim Murphy

Derek Twigg

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

Dated 10th December 2003

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Rules.)

These Rules amend the Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (Costs) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1992 so as to alter the date after which certain work may be remunerated at discretionary instead of prescribed rates from 31st December 2003 to 1st July 2004.