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The Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment) Regulations 1998
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- 1998 No. 664
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These Regulations amend the Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1989 so as to—
(a)increase the income limit for non-contributory civil legal aid from £2,563 to £2,625; the upper income limit is increased from £7,595 to £7,777; for personal injury cases the upper income limit is increased from £8,370 to £8,571 (regulation 2);
(b)make further provision for a deduction to be made for a dependent child or a dependent relative aged 19 or over when computing the income of a person during the assessment of his resources in respect of an application for legal aid (regulation 4);
(c)change the definition of pensionable age for a man from 65 to 60 in Schedule 2 to the 1989 Regulations; this relates to the amount of capital which may be disregarded for pensioners on low incomes during the computation of their capital for a legal aid application (regulation 6); and
(d)make other minor amendments (regulations 3 and 5).
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