1996 No. 205

LEGAL AID AND ADVICE

Legal Advice and Assistance (Prospective Cost) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Made

To be laid before Parliament

Coming into operation

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 6(2), 22 and 27 of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 19811 and now vested in him2, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Citation, commencement and revocation1

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Prospective Cost) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 10th June 1996.

2

The Legal Advice and Assistance (Prospective Cost) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 19923 are hereby revoked.

Financial limit on prospective cost of advice and assistance2

For the limit of £86·50 specified in Article 6(2) of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 19814 there shall be substituted the limit of £88·00.

Mackay of Clashfern, C.

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations revoke and replace the Legal Advice and Assistance (Prospective Cost) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992 to increase from £86·50 to £88·00 the limit on the cost of legal advice and assistance provided under Articles 3 and 4 of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 which a solicitor may incur without obtaining the approval of the appropriate authority.