Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2008 No. 106

Legal Aid And Advice

Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

Made

8th March 2008

Coming into operation

7th April 2008

To be laid before Parliament

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) 2008 and shall come into operation on 7th April 2008.

Revocation

2.  The Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007(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 £95 but not exceeding £102 a week	£7
Exceeding £102 but not exceeding £109 a week	£14
Exceeding £109 but not exceeding £116 a week	£21
Exceeding £116 but not exceeding £123 a week	£28
Exceeding £123 but not exceeding £130 a week	£35
Exceeding £130 but not exceeding £137 a week	£42
Disposable Income Range	Maximum Contribution
Exceeding £137 but not exceeding £144 a week	£49
Exceeding £144 but not exceeding £151 a week	£56
Exceeding £151 but not exceeding £158 a week	£63
Exceeding £158 but not exceeding £165 a week	£70
Exceeding £165 but not exceeding £172 a week	£77
Exceeding £172 but not exceeding £179 a week	£84
Exceeding £179 but not exceeding £186 a week	£91
Exceeding £186 but not exceeding £193 a week	£98
Exceeding £193 but not exceeding £200 a week	£105
Exceeding £200 but not exceeding £207 a week	£112
Exceeding £207 but not exceeding £214 a week	£119
Exceeding £214 but not exceeding £223 a week	£126”

Signed by the authority of the Lord Chancellor

DavidHanson

Minister of State

Ministry of Justice

Dated 8th March 2008

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. 2007 No. 173

(4)

S.R. 1981 No. 366; to which the most recent relevant amendment was made by S.R. 2007 No. 173