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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
1997 No. 92
LEGAL AID AND ADVICE
Legal Advice and Assistance (Financial Conditions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997
Made
21st February 1997
To be laid before Parliament
Coming into operation
7th April 1997
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Financial Conditions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation on 7th April 1997.
(2) In these Regulations, “the Order” means the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.
Revocation
2. The Legal Advice and Assistance (Financial Conditions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996(3) are hereby revoked.
Persons eligible for advice and assistance
3. For the weekly sum of £162 specified in Article 3(1) of the Order(4) there shall be substituted the weekly sum of £166.
Contributions from persons receiving advice and assistance
4. For the weekly sum of £67 specified in Article 7(2) of the Order(5) there shall be substituted the weekly sum of £69.
Mackay of Clashfern, C.
Dated 21st February 1997
Explanatory Note
(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 £166 a week (instead of £162) (Regulation 3);
(b)increase the lower income limit below which legal advice and assistance is available without payment of a contribution to £69 a week (instead of £67) (Regulation 4).
No changes are made to the capital limits.
(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)
Which figure was most recently substituted by S.R. 1996 No. 96
(5)
Which figure was most recently substituted by S.R. 1996 No. 96
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