The Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (Costs) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2004

Made: 7th June 2004

To be laid before Parliament

Coming into operation: 2nd July 2004

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) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2004, and shall come into operation on 2nd July 2004.

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 “1st July 2004” there shall be substituted the date “1st January 2005”.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

Lord Filkin — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, — Dated 7th June 2004

We approve

John Heppell — Derek Twigg — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — Dated 10th June 2004

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 2nd July 2004 to 1st January 2005.

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. 2003 No. 526