LegalizeThe Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) Regulations 1991
Made: 11th March 1991
Laid before Parliament: 18th March 1991
Coming into force: 8th April 1991
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 9, 34 and 43 of the Legal Aid Act 1988[^f00001], and with the consent of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Regulations:–
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 8th April 1991.
2
In these Regulations a regulation or Schedule referred to by number means a regulation or Schedule so numbered in the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989[^f00002].
3
In paragraph (1) of regulation 30 the words after “Part I,” shall be deleted and there shall be inserted the words “paragraph 1(1)(a) to the Costs Regulations as if the work done was work to which those provisions applied, save that paragraphs 2 and 3 of Schedule 1, Part I shall not apply.”.
4
In the table in Schedule 3 for the figure “£64” there shall be substituted the figure “£70” and for the figure “£72” in both places where it occurs there shall be substituted the figure “£74”.
Signed
Mackay of Clashfern, C. — Dated 8th March 1991
We consent,
Thomas Sackville — Irvine Patnick — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — Dated 11th March 1991
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989 by excluding from the assessment of costs under the Regulations the provisions of the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (Costs) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/343) which allow for reduction and enhancement of the prescribed rates and by amending the scale of contributions payable for legal advice and assistance.
Footnotes
[^f00001]: 1988 c. 34; sections 9 and 34 were amended by the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41), Schedule 18, paragraph 63. Section 43 is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meaning assigned to the word “regulations”.
[^f00002]: S.I. 1989/340.
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