2000 No. 80
LEGAL AID AND ADVICE
Legal Advice and Assistance (Financial Conditions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000
To be laid before Parliament
Made 14th March 2000
Coming into operation 10th April 2000

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 3(2), 7(3), 22 and 27 of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 and now vested in him , hereby makes the following Regulations:—
S.I.1981/228 (N.I. 8); Article 27 is an interpretation provision and is recited because of the meaning assigned to the words “prescribed” and “regulations”.
S.I.1982/159

1 Citation, commencement and interpretation
1 These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Financial Conditions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 and shall come into operation on 10th April 2000.
2 In these regulations, “the Order” means the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.

2 Revocation
The Legal Advice and Assistance (Financial Conditions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 are hereby revoked.
S.R. 1999 No. 130

3 Persons eligible for advice and assistance
For the weekly sum of “£178” specified in Article 3(1) of the Order there shall be substituted the weekly sum of “£180”.
Which figure was most recently substituted by S.R. 1999 No. 130

4 Contributions from persons receiving advice and assistance
For the weekly sum of “£75” specified in Article 7(2) of the Order there shall be substituted the weekly sum of “£76”.
Which figure was most recently substituted by S.R. 1999 No. 130
Irvine of Lairg, C Dated 14th March 2000.

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)
These Regulations amend the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 so as to:
(a) increase the upper income limit to make legal advice and assistance available to those with disposable income of not more than £180 a week (instead of £178) (Regulation 3);
(b) increase the lower income limit below which legal advice and assistance is available without payment of a contribution to £76 a week (instead of £75) (Regulation 4).
No changes are made to the capital limits.