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2002 No. 62

LEGAL AID AND ADVICE

Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

  Made 22nd February 2002 
  To be laid before Parliament
  Coming into operation 8th April 2002 

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 7(2), 22 and 27 of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981[1] and now vested in him[2], hereby makes the following Regulations: - 

Citation and commencement
     1. These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 and shall come into operation on 8th April 2002.

Revocation
    
2. The Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001[3] are hereby revoked.

Amendment to Schedule 2
     3. For the table set out in Schedule 2 to the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981[4] there shall be substituted the following table - 

Disposable Income Range Maximum Contribution
Exceeding £80 but not exceeding £87 a week £7
Exceeding £87 but not exceeding £94 a week £14
Exceeding £94 but not exceeding £101 a week £21
Exceeding £101 but not exceeding £108 a week £28
Exceeding £108 but not exceeding £115 a week £35
Exceeding £115 but not exceeding £122 a week £42
Exceeding £122 but not exceeding £129 a week £49
Exceeding £129 but not exceeding £136 a week £56
Exceeding £136 but not exceeding £143 a week £63
Exceeding £143 but not exceeding £150 a week £70
Exceeding £150 but not exceeding £157 a week £77
Exceeding £157 but not exceeding £164 a week £84
Exceeding £164 but not exceeding £171 a week £91
Exceeding £171 but not exceeding £178 a week £98
Exceeding £178 but not exceeding £185 a week £105
Exceeding £185 but not exceeding £189 a week £107"



Irvine of Lairg,
C.

Dated 22nd February, 2002



EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)


These Regulations amend the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981 so as to substitute a new scale of contributions payable for legal advice and assistance under Article 7(2) of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.


Notes:

[1] 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"back

[2] S.I. 1982/159back

[3] S.R. 2001 No. 113back

[4] S.R. 1981 No. 366; to which the most recent relevant amendment was made by S.R. 2001 No. 113back



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  © Crown copyright 2002

Prepared 27 March 2002


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