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1999 No. 816
LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Legal Aid (Mediation in Family Matters) (Amendment) Regulations 1999
Made
12th March 1999
Laid before Parliament
16th March 1999
Coming into force
12th April 1999
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 13B(2), 34 and 43 of the Legal Aid Act 1988(1), makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and transitional provisions
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid (Mediation in Family Matters) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 12th April 1999.
(2) These Regulations shall apply to applications for mediation made on or after 12th April 1999 and applications made before that date shall be treated as if these Regulations had not come into force.
Amendment to the Legal Aid (Mediation in Family Matters) Regulations 1997
2. In regulation 3 of the Legal Aid (Mediation in Family Matters) Regulations 1997(2), for “£172” there shall be substituted “£178”.
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
G.W. Hoon
Minister of State,
Lord Chancellor’s Department
Dated 7th March 1999
We consent
Jane Kennedy
Jim Dowd
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
Dated 12th March 1999
Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Legal Aid (Mediation in Family Matters) Regulations 1997 so as to change the weekly disposable income limit for eligibility for mediation from £172 to £178.
(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 and by the Family Law Act 1996 (c. 27), section 26 and Schedule 8, paragraph 44. Section 13B(2) was inserted by the Family Law Act 1996, section 27. Section 43 is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meaning given to “regulations”.
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