SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 12Minor and consequential amendments

18Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (S.I. 1981/228 (N.I. 8))

In Article 4(2) (relationship between legal advice and assistance and legal aid), after sub-paragraph (a) insert—

aa

at a time when—

i

the Legal Aid Committee has informed him that legal aid is available to him in connection with those proceedings under a direction given under Article 10A(1)(a); or

ii

the Lord Chancellor has informed him that legal aid is available to him in connection with those proceedings under a direction given under Article 10A(1)(b),

and he has not been informed by the Legal Aid Committee or the Lord Chancellor that such legal aid has ceased to be so available; or