1. These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 17th May 2004.
2. In these Regulations “the principal regulations” means the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981(1).
3. In paragraph 1A of Schedule 1 to the principal regulations for the words “a man and a woman who are living with each other in the same household as husband and wife” there shall be substituted “a client and anyone with whom the client normally resides as a couple, including a person of the same sex,”.
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
Lord Filkin
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department for Constitutional Affairs
Dated 24th March 2004
We approve
John Heppell
Jim Murphy
Two of the Lord’s Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
Dated 1st April 2004