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STATUTORY RULES OF NORTHERN IRELAND
2007 No. 174
LEGAL AID AND ADVICE
Legal Advice and Assistance (Financial Conditions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007
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Made |
18th March 2007 | |
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To be laid before Parliament |
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Coming into operation |
9th April 2007 | |
The Lord Chancellor makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 3(2), 7(3), 22 and 27 of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981[1] and now vested in him[2]:
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.
—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Financial Conditions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 and shall come into operation on 9th April 2007.
(2) In these Regulations, "the Order" means the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.
Revocation
2.
The Legal Advice and Assistance (Financial Conditions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006[3] are hereby revoked.
Persons eligible for advice and assistance
3.
For the weekly sum of "£208" specified in Article 3(1) of the Order[4] there shall be substituted the weekly sum of "£215".
Contributions from persons receiving advice and assistance
4.
For the weekly sum of "£88" specified in Article 7(2) of the Order[5] there shall be substituted the weekly sum of "£91".
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
Bridget Prentice
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs
Dated 18th March 2007
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 so as to:
(a) increase the upper income limit to make legal advice and assistance available to those with disposable income of not more than £215 a week (instead of £208);
(b) increase the lower income limit below which legal advice and assistance is available without payment of a contribution to £91 a week (instead of £88).
No changes are made to the capital limits.
Notes:
[1]
S.I. 1981/228 (N.I. 8); Article 27 is an interpretation provision and is recited because of the meaning assigned to the words "prescribed" and "regulations"back
[2]
S.I. 1982/159back
[3]
S.R. 2006 No. 117back
[4]
Which figure was most recently substituted by S.R. 2006 No. 117back
[5]
Which figure was most recently substituted by S.R. 2006 No. 117back
ISBN
978 0 337 96977 5
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18 April 2007
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