2000 No. 431
LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, ENGLAND WALES

The Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 21(5), 23, 34 and 43 of the Legal Aid Act 19881, and with the consent of the Treasury, makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement, interpretation and transitional provisions

1.

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 10th April 2000.

(2)

In these Regulations, unless the context requires otherwise, a reference to a regulation or Schedule by number alone means the regulation or Schedule so numbered in the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) Regulations 19892.

(3)

These Regulations shall apply to applications for legal aid made on or after 10th April 2000 and applications made before that date shall be treated as if these Regulations had not come into force.

Amendments to the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) Regulations 1989

2.

In Schedule 2, Part Two of Form 6 (beginning “Calculation of contribution from INCOME”) shall be amended by substituting for “£51”, “£52” and, for “£52”, “£53”.

3.

Schedule 4 shall be amended by substituting for “£51”, “£52” and, for “£52”, “£53”.

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

David Lock
Parliamentary Secretary,
Lord Chancellor’s Department

We consent

Bob Ainsworth
Jim Dowd
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) Regulations 1989 so as to increase the income limit for non-contributory criminal legal aid from £52 to £53.