The Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (Costs) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1999

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

1999 No. 260

Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance

The Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (Costs) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1999

Made

3rd June 1999

To be laid before Parliament

Coming into operation

29th 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), after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice and the Attorney General and with the approval of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Rules:—

Citation and commencement

1.  These Rules may be cited as the Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (Costs) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 29th June 1999.

Alteration of date

2.  In rules 6(3) and 9(5)(a) of the Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (Costs) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1992(3) for the date “30th June 1999” there shall be substituted the date “30th June 2000”.

Irvine of Lairg, C.

Dated 3rd June 1999

We approve

Jim Dowd

Jane Kennedy

Two of the Lord’s Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

Dated 8th June 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Rules.)

These Rules amend the Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (Costs) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1992 so as to alter the date after which certain work may be remunerated at discretionary instead of prescribed rates from 30th June 1999 to 30th June 2000.

(1)

S.I. 1981/228 (N.I. 8)

(2)

S.I. 1982/159

(3)

S.R. 1992 No. 314; to which the most recent relevant amendment was made by S.R. 1998 No. 200