The Legal Advice and Assistance at Police Stations (Remuneration) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1996

Statutory Instruments

1996 No. 1554

LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Legal Advice and Assistance at Police Stations (Remuneration) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1996

Made

14th June 1996

Laid before Parliament

14th June 1996

Coming into force

8th July 1996

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

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance at Police Stations (Remuneration) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 8th July 1996.

(2) These Regulations shall apply for the purposes of work done on or after 8th July 1996 to which the Legal Advice and Assistance at Police Stations (Remuneration) Regulations 1989(2) apply.

2.  The Schedule to the Legal Advice and Assistance at Police Stations (Remuneration) Regulations 1989 shall be amended as follows—

(a) for the maximum fees of £88.00 and £89.25 allowed under paragraph 1(1)(a) there shall be substituted the maximum fees of £87.60 and £90.00;

(b) for the maximum fees of £90.75 and £92.00 allowed under paragraph 3(a) there shall be substituted the maximum fees of £91.20 and £92.40.

Mackay of Clashfern, C

Dated 11th June 1996

We consent,

Michael Bates

Simon Burns

Two of the Lords Commissionersof Her Majesty’s Treasury

Dated 14th June 1996

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Legal Advice and Assistance at Police Stations (Remuneration) Regulations 1989 to revise some of the rates of remuneration for work done on or after 8th July 1996.

(1)

1988 c. 34; sections 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. 1989/342; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1990/487, 1991/527, 1992/594, 1994/1824,1995/950 and 1996/648.