The Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (Costs) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 1477

LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (Costs) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

Made

3rd June 1994

Laid before Parliament

6th June 1994

Coming into force

29th June 1994

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 25(2), 34 and 43 of the Legal Aid Act 1988(1), having had regard to the matters specified in section 34(9) and consulted the General Council of the Bar and the Law Society, and with the consent of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (Costs) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 29th June 1994.

2.  In regulations 6(3) and 9(5)(a) of the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (Costs) Regulations 1989(2) for the date “30th June 1994” there shall be substituted “30th June 1995”.

Mackay of Clashfern, C.

Dated 24th May 1994

We consent,

Kenneth Clarke

Tim Wood

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

Dated 3rd June 1994

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (Costs) Regulations 1989. They alter the date after which certain work may be remunerated at discretionary instead of prescribed rates, from 30th June 1994 to 30th June 1995.

(1)

1988 c. 34; sections 25(2), 34 and 43 were amended by the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41), Schedule 18, paragraphs 60 and 63. Section 43 is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meaning assigned to the word “regulations”.

(2)

S.I. 1989/343, as amended by S.I. 1990/488, S.I. 1991/529, 838 and 2037, S.I. 1992/592 and S.I. 1993/934.