Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
LEGAL AID AND ADVICE
To be laid before Parliament
Made
14th March 2000
Coming into operation
10th April 2000
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Financial Conditions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 and shall come into operation on 10th April 2000.
(2) In these regulations, “the Order” means the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.
2. The Legal Advice and Assistance (Financial Conditions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999(3) are hereby revoked.
3. For the weekly sum of “£178” specified in Article 3(1) of the Order(4) there shall be substituted the weekly sum of “£180”.
4. For the weekly sum of “£75” specified in Article 7(2) of the Order(5) there shall be substituted the weekly sum of “£76”.
Irvine of Lairg, C
Dated 14th March 2000.
(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 £180 a week (instead of £178) (Regulation 3);
(b)increase the lower income limit below which legal advice and assistance is available without payment of a contribution to £76 a week (instead of £75) (Regulation 4).
No changes are made to the capital limits.
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”.
S.I. 1982/159
Which figure was most recently substituted by S.R. 1999 No. 130
Which figure was most recently substituted by S.R. 1999 No. 130