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The Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (General) (Amendment) Regulations 1987

Type Statutory-Instrument

Publication 1987-03-12

State In force

Department Queen's Printer of Acts of Parliament

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Made: 12th March 1987

Laid before Parliament: 16th March 1987

Coming into force: 6th April 1987

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 39 of the Legal Aid Act 1974[^f00001], and now vested in him[^f00002], and section 7 of the Legal Aid Act 1982[^f00003] and with the concurrence of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (General) (Amendment) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 6th April 1987.

2

In the Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (General) Regulations 1968[^f00004]—

(a) for the weekly sum of £46 specified in regulation 19(3)(a), there shall be substituted the weekly sum of £48; and

(b) for the sums specified in the Third Schedule, there shall be substituted the following sums:—

Exceeding £48 but not exceeding £54	£1
Exceeding £54 but not exceeding £58	£2
Exceeding £58 but not exceeding £62	£3
Exceeding £62 but not exceeding £66	£4
Exceeding £66 but not exceeding £70	£5,

and the weekly instalment of contribution shall be increased by £1 for each £4 or part of £4 by which average weekly disposable income exceeds £70.

Signed

Hailsham of St. Marylebone, C. — Dated 9th March 1987

We concur,

Mark Lennox-Boyd — Michael Neubert — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — Dated 12th March 1987

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations increase from £46 to £48 a week the disposable income above which a person receiving legal aid in criminal proceedings under Part II of the Legal Aid Act 1974 is required, under the Legal Aid Act 1982, to pay a contribution and amend the scale of contributions.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1974 c. 4.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1980/705.

[^f00003]: 1982 c. 44.

[^f00004]: S.I. 1968/1231; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1983/1863 and 1985/1632.

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