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Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 635

LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment) Regulations 1991

Made

11th March 1991

Laid before Parliament

18th March 1991

Coming into force

8th April 1991

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 15(1), 16, 34 and 43 of the Legal Aid Act 1988(1) and with the consent of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 8th April 1991.

2.—(1) These Regulations shall apply to applications for legal aid where the period of computation begins on or after 8th April 1991.

(2) Assessments and reassessments made in respect of applications where the period of coniputation begins before 8th April 1991 shall be made as if these Regulations had not come into force.

(3) In this regulation “period of computation” has the meaning assigned by regulation 3 of the Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1989(2).

3.  In regulation 4(4)(a) of the Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1989 for the figure “£2,645” there shall be substituted the figure “£2,860”.

Mackay of Clashfern, C.

Dated 8th March 1991

We consent,

Thomas Sackville

Irvine Patrick

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

Dated 11th March 1991

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These regulations amend the Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1989 by increasing the level of disposable income at which no contribution is payable from £2,645 to £2,860.

(1)

1988 c. 34; section 34 was amended by the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41), Schedule 18, paragraph 63. Section 43 is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meaning assigned to the word “regulations”.

(2)

S.I. 1989/338, as amended by S.I. 1990/484.

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