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Section 86 Protection of legal aid charges.

Northern Ireland

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

In any case where—

(a)

the compensation payment is subject to any charge under the M1Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, and

(b)

after the making of the relevant deduction, the balance of the compensation payment is insufficient to satisfy that charge,

the Department shall make such a payment as will secure that the deficiency is made good to the extent of the relevant payment.

(2)

Where the Department makes a payment under this section, then for the purposes of section 80 above, the amount of the payment shall be treated as increasing the total benefit.

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1

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

Notes on Part IV

Textual amendments

F1

Pt. IV (ss. 77-99) repealed (6.10.1997) by S.I. 1997/1183 (N.I. 12), art. 31(1)(2), Sch. 3, para. 2, Sch. 4; S.R. 1997/400, art. 2(2)