Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2006 No. 118

LEGAL AID AND ADVICE

Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Made

1st March 2006

To be laid before Parliament

Coming into operation

10th April 2006

The Lord Chancellor makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 7(2), 22 and 27 of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981(1) and now vested in him(2):

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 and shall come into operation on 10th April 2006.

Revocation

2.  The Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005(3) are hereby revoked.

Amendment to Schedule 2

3.  For the table set out in Schedule 2 to the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981(4) there shall be substituted the following table—

“Disposable Income Range	Maximum Contribution
Exceeding £88 but not exceeding £95 a week	£7
Exceeding £95 but not exceeding £102 a week	£14
Exceeding £102 but not exceeding £109 a week	£21
Exceeding £109 but not exceeding £116 a week	£28
Exceeding £116 but not exceeding £123 a week	£35
Exceeding £123 but not exceeding £130 a week	£42
Exceeding £130 but not exceeding £137 a week	£49
Exceeding £137 but not exceeding £144 a week	£56
Exceeding £144 but not exceeding £151 a week	£63
Exceeding £151 but not exceeding £158 a week	£70
Exceeding £158 but not exceeding £165 a week	£77
Exceeding £165 but not exceeding £165 a week	£84
Exceeding £172 but not exceeding £179 a week	£91
Exceeding £179 but not exceeding £186 a week	£98
Exceeding £186 but not exceeding £193 a week	£105
Exceeding £193 but not exceeding £200 a week	£112
Exceeding £200 but not exceeding £208 a week	£119”

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

Bridget Prentice

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department for Constitutional Affairs

Dated 1st March 2006

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981 so as to substitute a new scale of contributions payable for legal advice and assistance under Article 7(2) of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.

(1)

S.I. 1981/228 (N.I. 8); Article 27 is an interpretation provision and is recited because of the meaning assigned to the words “prescribed” and “regulations”

(2)

S.I. 1982/159

(3)

S.R. 2005 No. 67

(4)

S.R. 1981 No. 366; to which the most recent relevant amendment was made by S.R. 2005 No. 67