Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 No. 212

Assistance by way of representation for certain cases under the Life Sentences (Northern Ireland) Order 2001

2.  In regulation 17(3)(b) of the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981(1) –

(1) after the words “those proceedings”, in sub-paragraph (iii), there shall be added the word “, or”;

(2) after the words “Life Sentence Review Commissioners”, in sub-paragraph (iv), there shall be added the word “, or”;

(3) after sub-paragraph (iv), there shall be added the following sub-paragraph –

“(v) in respect of a hearing held under Article 10 or 11 of the Life Sentences (Northern Ireland) Order 2001(2) by a solicitor acting on behalf of the person whose case is or is to be the subject of the hearing”.

(1)

S.R. 1981 No. 366 (to which the relevant amendments were made by S.R. 2001 No. 290; S.R. 2001 No. 9; S.R. 1999 No. 200; 1999 S.R. No. 95; S.R. 1996 No. 483; S.R. 1993 No. 136; S.R. 1989 No. 469; S.R. 1988 No. 87; S.R. 1984 No. 82 and S.R. 1983 No. 29).

(2)

S.I. 2001/2564 (N.I. 2).