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Made
8th March 2008
Coming into operation
7th April 2008
To be laid before Parliament
1.–(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Financial Conditions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 and shall come into operation on 7th April 2008.
(2) In these Regulations, "the Order" means the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.
2. The Legal Advice and Assistance (Financial Conditions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007(3) are hereby revoked.
3. For the weekly sum of "£215" specified in Article 3(1) of the Order(4) there shall be substituted the weekly sum of "£223".
4. For the weekly sum of "£91" specified in Article 7(2) of the Order(5) there shall be substituted the weekly sum of "£95".
Signed by the authority of the Lord Chancellor
DavidHanson
Minister of State
Ministry of Justice
Dated 8th March 2008
(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 £223 a week (instead of £215);
(b) increase the lower income limit below which legal advice and assistance is available without payment of a contribution to £95 a week (instead of £91).
No changes are made to the capital limits.
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" Back [1]
S.I. 1982/159 Back [2]
S.R. 2007 No. 174 Back [3]
Which figure was most recently substituted by S.R. 2007 No. 174 Back [4]
Which figure was most recently substituted by S.R. 2007 No. 174 Back [5]
