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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2005 No. 67

LEGAL AID AND ADVICE

Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Made

3rd March 2005

To be laid before Parliament

Coming into operation

11th April 2005

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 7(2), 22 and 27 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 Advice and Assistance (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 and shall come into operation on 11th April 2005.

Revocation

2.  The Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004(3) are hereby revoked.

Amendment to Schedule 2

3.  For the table set out in Schedule 2 to the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981(4) there shall be substituted the following table –

Disposable Income RangeMaximum Contribution
Exceeding £86 but not exceeding £93 a week£7
Exceeding £93 but not exceeding £100 a week£14
Exceeding £100 but not exceeding £107 a week£21
Exceeding £107 but not exceeding £114 a week£28
Exceeding £114 but not exceeding £121 a week£35
Exceeding £121 but not exceeding £128 a week£42
Exceeding £128 but not exceeding £135 a week£49
Exceeding £135 but not exceeding £142 a week£56
Exceeding £142 but not exceeding £149 a week£63
Exceeding £149 but not exceeding £156 a week£70
Exceeding £156 but not exceeding £163 a week£77
Exceeding £163 but not exceeding £170 a week£84
Exceeding £170 but not exceeding £177 a week£91
Exceeding £177 but not exceeding £184 a week£98
Exceeding £184 but not exceeding £191 a week£105
Exceeding £191 but not exceeding £198 a week£112
Exceeding £198 but not exceeding £203 a week£117

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

Baroness Ashton

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department for Constitutional Affairs

Dated 3rd March 2005

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981 so as to substitute a new scale of contributions payable for legal advice and assistance under Article 7(2) of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.

(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”

(2)

S.I. 1982/159

(4)

S.R. 1981 No. 366; to which the most recent relevant amendment was made by S.R. 2004 No. 87

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