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SCHEDULELEGAL AID: AMENDMENTS

The Criminal Appeal (Northern Ireland) Act 1980

4.  In section 28(2)—

(a)for the words preceding paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the words “The following expenses, that is to say—”;

(b)after paragraph (e) there shall be inserted the words “shall, up to an amount allowed by the Master (Taxing Office) be defrayed, in the case of expenses within paragraph (a), by the Lord Chancellor and, in any other case, by the Secretary of State.”

5.  In section 37(3) for the words “the Secretary of State” there shall be substituted the words “the Lord Chancellor”.

6.  In paragraph 7 of Schedule 4 the words from “in subsection (1)” to “respectively and” shall be omitted.