Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Made: 18th February 2006

To be laid before Parliament

Coming into operation: 27th March 2006

The Lord Chancellor makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 14, 22 and 27 of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981[^f00001] and now vested in him[^f00002]:

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 and shall come into operation on 27th March 2006.

Amendment to the principal regulations

2

In regulation 1(2) of the Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981[^f00003] for “Department of Health and Social Services” substitute “Department for Social Development”.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

Bridget Prentice — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, — Department for Constitutional Affairs — Dated 18th February 2006

We approve

Gillian Merron — Tom Watson — Two of the Lord’s Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — Dated 27th February 2006

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981, as a consequence of the Departments (Northern Ireland) Order 1999, to substitute the Department for Social Development for the reference made to the Department of Health and Social Services.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 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”

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

[^f00003]: S.R. 1981 No. 189