1999 No. 233

LEGAL AID AND ADVICE

The Legal Aid in Criminal Cases (Statement of Means)Rules (Northern Ireland) 1999

Made

To be laid before Parliament

Coming into operation

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 36(3) of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 19811 and now vested in him2, 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:—

Citation and commencement1

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.

Revocation2

The Legal Aid in Criminal Cases (Statement of Means) Rules (Northern Ireland) 19883 are hereby revoked.

Statement of means form3

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.

We approve

Jim DowdDavid JamiesonTwo of the Lord’s Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

SCHEDULECRIMINAL LEGAL AIDStatement of Means Form

Rule 3

FORM 1STATEMENT OF MEANS OF AN APPLICANT UNDER PART III OF THE LEGAL AID, ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1981

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(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.