The Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (Costs) (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2003

Made: 4th December 2003

To be laid before Parliament

Coming into operation: 31st December 2003

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 36(3) of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981[^f00001], and now vested in him[^f00002], after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice and the Attorney General and with the approval of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1

These Rules may be cited as the Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (Costs) (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2003, and shall come into operation on 31st December 2003.

Alteration of date

2

In rules 6(3) and 9(5)(a) of the Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (Costs) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1992[^f00003] for the date “31st December 2003” there shall be substituted the date “1st July 2004”.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

Lord Filkin — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, — Dated 4th December 2003

We approve

Jim Murphy — Derek Twigg — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — Dated 10th December 2003

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Rules.)

These Rules amend the Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (Costs) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1992 so as to alter the date after which certain work may be remunerated at discretionary instead of prescribed rates from 31st December 2003 to 1st July 2004.

Footnotes

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

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

[^f00003]: S.R. 1992 No. 314; to which the most recent relevant amendment was made by S.R. 2002 No. 376