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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
LEGAL AID AND ADVICE
Made
12th May 1999
To be laid before Parliament
Coming into operation
14th June 1999
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 36(3) of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981(1) and now vested in him(2), and after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice, the Attorney General, the Crown Court Rules Committee, the County Court Rules Committee and the Magistrates' Courts Rules Committee and with the approval of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Rules:—
1. These Rules may be cited as the Legal Aid in Criminal Cases (Statement of Means) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 14th June 1999.
2. The Legal Aid in Criminal Cases (Statement of Means) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1988(3) are hereby revoked.
3. The form set out in the Schedule shall be the prescribed form for the purposes of Article 32(1) of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (statement of means for the purposes of legal aid in criminal proceedings).
Irvine of Lairg, C.
Dated 12th May 1999
We approve
Jim Dowd
David Jamieson
Two of the Lord’s Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
Dated 13th May 1999
Rule 3
(This note is not part of the Rules.)
These Rules revoke the Legal Aid in Criminal Cases (Statement of Means) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1988 and provide a new statement of means form which an applicant for free legal aid under Part III of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 may be required to furnish under Article 32 of that Order.
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