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Legal aid certificates

3.  In rule 4 of the principal rules –

(1) For paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following new paragraph –

(1) A criminal aid certificate granted under Article 28 of the Order (free legal aid in the magistrates' court) shall be in Form 1 in the Schedule, and a criminal aid certificate granted under Article 28A of the Order (free legal aid for diversionary youth conferences) shall be in Form 2 in the Schedule.;

(2) For paragraph (4) there shall be substituted the following new paragraph –

(4) The clerk of petty sessions shall send a certified copy of the criminal aid certificate granted under Article 28 or Article 28A of the Order, as the case may be, to the Northern Ireland Legal Services Commission and to the solicitor assigned under this rule.; and

(3) After paragraph (4) there shall be added the following new paragraph –

(5) Any criminal aid certificate which may have been granted to a person under Article 28 of the Order shall cease to have effect upon the granting of a criminal aid certificate to that person under Article 28A of the Order in respect of the same charge or subject-matter..