The Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Made: 24th July 2001

To be laid before Parliament

Coming into operation: 1st September 2001

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 5(3)(a) and 22(1) of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981[^f00001] and now vested in him[^f00002], hereby makes the following regulations:—

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on 1st September 2001.

Interpretation

2

In these regulations “the principal regulations” means the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981[^f00003].

Amendment of the principal Regulations

3

In regulation 3 of the principal regulations after the meaning of “Legal Aid Committee” there shall be added the following meaning—

• “Life Sentence Review Commissioners” means the Life Sentence Review Commissioners appointed by the Secretary of State under Article 3 of the Life Sentences (Northern Ireland) Order 2001[^f00004];

4

In regulation 17(3)(b) of the principal regulations—

• (a) the words “it is made” in sub-paragraph (iii) shall be omitted;

• (c) after sub-paragraph (iii), there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—

(iv) in respect of a hearing before the Life Sentence Review Commissioners.

Signed

Irvine of Lairg, C. — Dated 24th July 2001

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations extend assistance by way of representation, under Article 5 of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, to life sentence prisoners at hearings before the Life Sentence Review Commissioners.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1981/228 (N.I. 8)

[^f00002]: S.I. 1982/159

[^f00003]: S.R. 1981 No. 366 (to which the relevant amendments were made by S.R. 1996 No. 483; S.R. 1996 No. 411; S.R. 1993 No. 124; S.R. 1992 No. 105; S.R.1989 No. 469; S.R. 1988 No. 87; S.R. 1984 No. 82 and S.R. 1983 No. 29)

[^f00004]: S.I. 2001 No. 2564 (N.I. 2)