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The Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment) Regulations 1996
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- 1996 No. 434
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These Regulations amend the provisions of the Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1989 concerning the computation of the income and capital of an applicant for legal aid by—
(1) providing for a power to take into account all or part of the resources of a person to whom the applicant has transferred assets, or who has been maintaining or assisting the applicant;
(2) limiting the amount of the mortgage instalments to be deducted in computing the applicant’s income to the proportion attributable to the first £100,000 of the mortgage debt;
(3) limiting the total amount deductible in respect of any mortgage debts on one or more homes of the applicant to £100,000;
(4) limiting the amount to be disregarded in respect of his only or principal home to the first £100,000 of the value, as assessed after deduction of any amount allowable in respect of a mortgage debt.
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