1. Introductory Text

  2. PART I CITATION, COMMENCEMENT AND INTERPRETATION

    1. 1.Citation and commencement

    2. 2.Interpretation

  3. PART II NORTHERN IRELAND LEGAL SERVICES COMMISSION

    1. 3.Northern Ireland Legal Services Commission

    2. 4.Membership of the Commission

    3. 5.Power to replace Commission with two bodies

    4. 6.Planning

    5. 7.Powers of Commission

    6. 8.Guidance

    7. 9.Northern Ireland law and foreign law

    8. Civil legal services

      1. 10.Civil legal services

      2. 11.Funding of services

      3. 12.Services which may be funded

      4. 12A.Exceptional funding

      5. 13.Individuals for whom services may be funded

      6. 14.Decisions about provision of funded services

      7. 15.Funding code

      8. 16.Procedure relating to funding code

      9. 17.Terms of provision of funded services

      10. 18.Costs orders against assisted parties

      11. 19.Costs of successful unassisted parties

      12. 20.Regulations about costs in funded cases

    9. Criminal defence services

      1. 21.Criminal defence services

      2. 22.Criminal defence services: code of conduct

      3. 23.Advice and assistance

      4. 24.Representation

      5. 25.Individuals to whom right to representation may be granted

      6. 26.Grant of right to representation by court

      7. 27.Grant of right to representation by Commission

      8. 28.Appeals

      9. 29.Criteria for grant of right to representation

      10. 30.Selection of representative

      11. 31.Terms of provision of funded services

    10. Supplementary

      1. 32.Restriction of disclosure of information

      2. 33.Misrepresentation etc.

      3. 34.Position of service providers and other parties etc.

      4. 35.Solicitors and barristers

      5. 36.Register of persons providing services

  4. PART III OTHER FUNDING OF LEGAL SERVICES

    1. Conditional fee and litigation funding agreements

      1. 37.Interpretation of Part III

      2. 38.Conditional fee agreements

      3. 39.Conditional fee agreements: supplementary

      4. 40.Litigation funding agreements

      5. 41.Litigation funding agreements: the Commission

      6. 42.Litigation funding agreements: costs

    2. Costs

      1. 43.Recovery of insurance premiums by way of costs

      2. 44.Recovery where body undertakes to meet cost liabilities

  5. PART IV SUPPLEMENTARY

    1. 45.Application to Crown

    2. 46.Orders, regulations and directions

    3. 47.Remuneration orders

    4. 48.Transitional provisions and savings

    5. Article 49—Amendments and repeals

  6. SCHEDULES

    1. SCHEDULE 1

      NORTHERN IRELAND LEGAL SERVICES COMMISSION

      1. Incorporation and status

        1. 1.The Commission shall be a body corporate. Subject to the ...

        2. 2.The Commission shall not be regarded— as the servant or ...

      2. Tenure of members

        1. 3.Subject to paragraphs 4 and 5, any member of the ...

        2. 4.A member of the Commission may resign office by giving ...

        3. 5.The Lord Chancellor may terminate the appointment of a member ...

        4. 6.Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) to (5), the member appointed to ...

      3. Members' interests

        1. 7.Before appointing a person to be a member of the ...

        2. 8.A member of the Commission who is in any way ...

        3. 9.Remuneration

        4. 10.Staff

        5. 11.The Commission shall make, in respect of such of its ...

        6. 12.Funding of costs relating to administration etc.

        7. 13.Proceedings

      4. Provision of information

        1. 14.The Commission shall provide the Lord Chancellor with such information ...

      5. Annual report

        1. 15.The Commission shall provide to the Lord Chancellor, as soon ...

      6. Annual plan

        1. 16.The Commission shall, before the beginning of each financial year ...

      7. Accounts and audit

        1. 17.The Commission shall keep accounts and shall prepare in respect ...

      8. Instruments

        1. 18.The fixing of the seal of the Commission shall be ...

    2. SCHEDULE 2

      CIVIL LEGAL SERVICES: EXCLUDED SERVICES

      1. 1.The Commission may not fund services consisting of the provision ...

      2. 2.The Commission may not fund services consisting of representation in ...

      3. 3.These are the proceedings under the Proceeds of Crime Act ...

      4. 4.Subject to paragraph 5, the following services may not be ...

      5. 5.Notwithstanding paragraph 4, the making of a counterclaim for defamation ...

    3. SCHEDULE 3

      TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND SAVINGS

      1. Interpretation

        1. 1.In this Schedule— “the 1981 Order” means the Legal Aid, ...

      2. Rights, obligations and property

        1. 2.Subject to paragraphs 3 and 9, on the first appointed ...

      3. The Legal Aid Fund

        1. 3.On the first appointed day the legal aid fund ( ...

      4. Part II of the 1981 Order

        1. 4.The provisions of this paragraph shall have effect if the ...

      5. Part III of the 1981 Order

        1. 5.The provisions of this paragraph shall have effect if the ...

      6. Commission's annual plan and annual report

        1. 6.Where the Commission exercises any functions by virtue of paragraph ...

      7. Grants and approvals under the 1981 Order

        1. 7.Any grant of legal aid under Part II of the ...

      8. Chief Executive of the Commission

        1. 8.Notwithstanding anything in paragraph 10 of Schedule 1, the first ...

      9. The Commission: transfers of employment

        1. 9.The Commission shall make, not later than such date as ...

        2. 10.Where a person becomes an employee of the Commission on ...

        3. 11.Any dispute as to whether an offer purporting to be ...

      10. Pensions

        1. 12.Any arrangements made by the Law Society under Article 21 ...

      11. Assistance with functions

        1. 13.The Law Society shall give to the Commission all the ...

    4. Schedule 4—Amendments

    5. Schedule 5—Repeals