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STATUTORY RULES OF NORTHERN IRELAND


2005 No. 473

LEGAL AID AND ADVICE

Legal Aid (Costs of Successful Unassisted Parties) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

  Made 1st November 2005 
  To be laid before Parliament
  Coming into operation 5th December 2005 

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 17 of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981[1], and now vested in him[2], hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement
     1. These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid (Costs of Successful Unassisted Parties) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 and shall come into operation on 5th December 2005.

Interpretation
    
2. In these Regulations "the principal regulations" means the Legal Aid (Costs of Successful Unassisted Parties) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1965[3].

Amendment to the principal regulations
     3. In regulation 1(2) of the principal regulations after the definition of "chief clerk" there shall be inserted —

     4. In paragraph 6 of the Schedule to the principal regulations—



Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor


Bridget Prentice
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs

Dated 1st November 2005



EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)


These Regulations amend the Legal Aid (Costs of Successful Unassisted Parties) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1965 to insert references to the legal status of civil partners, as created by the provisions of the Civil Partnership Act 2004, to ensure an application for an order under Article 16 of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 by any person who is in a civil partnership is determined in a manner consistent with the existing Regulations.


Notes:

[1] S.I. 1981/228 (N.I. 8)back

[2] S.I. 1982/159back

[3] S.R. 1965 No. 235back

[4] 2004 c. 33back



ISBN 0 337 96230 8


 © Crown copyright 2005

Prepared 18 November 2005


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