{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-in-criminal-proceedings-general-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-in-criminal-proceedings-general-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/468",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (General) (Amendment) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-in-criminal-proceedings-general-amendment-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Regulation 31(1) shall be amended as follows—\n(a) in the definition of“appropriate authority”, for the words“the 1982 Regulations”, there shall be substituted the words“the 1988 Regulations”;\n(b) after the definition of“disposable income”, there shall be inserted the following definition—“‘family credit’ means family credit under the Social Security Act 1986;”;\n(c) after the definition of“guardian”, there shall be inserted the following definition—“‘income support’ means income support under the Social Security Act 1986;”;\n(d) for the definition of“the 1982 Regulations”, there shall be substituted the following definition—“‘the 1988 Regulations’ means the Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (Costs) Regulations 1988;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1986 c. 50."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/423."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/468/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:09:57.847948+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}