Article 21 Amendment of Legal Aid Act 1974

For the purposes of these Rules, paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 to the Act of 1974 (remuneration of persons giving legal aid under Part I of the Act) shall be amended as follows—

(a)

in sub-paragraph (1), for the words from “, costs shall” to “interested;”, there shall be substituted the following words— “and to any statutory provision to the contrary, costs shall be taxed for the purposes of this Schedule on the standard basis within the meaning of rules of court made under section 84 of the Supreme Court Act 1981;”;

(b)

in sub-paragraph (2)—

(i)

for the words “the rules applicable on such a taxation as there mentioned”, there shall be substituted the words “any statutory provision to the contrary”; and

(ii)

for the words “such a taxation” in the second place where they occur, there shall be substituted the words “a taxation”;

(c)

after sub-paragraph (2) there shall be added the following new sub-paragraph—

“(3)

In this paragraph, “statutory provision” has the same meaning as in section 64(3) of the Family Law Act 1986.”.