The Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (General) (Amendment) Regulations 1987 No. 422


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1987 No. 422

LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (General) (Amendment) Regulations 1987

Made

12th March 1987

Laid before Parliament

16th March 1987

Coming into force

6th April 1987

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 39 of the Legal Aid Act 1974(1), and now vested in him(2), and section 7 of the Legal Aid Act 1982(3) and with the concurrence of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Regulations:-

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (General) (Amendment) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 6th April 1987.

2.  In the Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (General) Regulations 1968(4)-

(a)for the weekly sum of £46 specified in regulation 19(3)(a), there shall be substituted the weekly sum of £48; and

(b)for the sums specified in the Third Schedule, there shall be substituted the following sums:-

Exceeding £48 but not exceeding £54£1
Exceeding £54 but not exceeding £58£2
Exceeding £58 but not exceeding £62£3
Exceeding £62 but not exceeding £66£4
Exceeding £66 but not exceeding £70£5,

and the weekly instalment of contribution shall be increased by £1 for each £4 or part of £4 by which average weekly disposable income exceeds £70.

Hailsham of St. Marylebone, C.

Dated 9th March 1987

We concur,

Mark Lennox-Boyd

Michael Neubert

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

Dated 12th March 1987

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations increase from £46 to £48 a week the disposable income above which a person receiving legal aid in criminal proceedings under Part II of the Legal Aid Act 1974 is required, under the Legal Aid Act 1982, to pay a contribution and amend the scale of contributions.

(2)

S.I. 1980/705.

(4)

S.I. 1968/1231; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1983/1863 and 1985/1632.

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