The Civil Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1993

Made: 14th July 1993

Laid before Parliament: 21st July 1993

Coming into force: 1st September 1993

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 34 and 43 of the Legal Aid Act 1988[^f00001], hereby makes the following Regulations:

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 1st September 1993.

2

In regulations 96(3)(b) and 97(4) of the Civil Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1989[^f00002] for the words “at the rate of 10 ½ per cent per annum” there shall be substituted, in respect of interest accruing on or after 1st September 1993, the words “at the rate of 8 per cent per annum”.

Signed

Mackay of Clashfern, C. — Dated 14th July 1993

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Civil Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1989 by reducing the rate of interest chargeable where enforcement of the statutory charge is postponed from 10 ½ per cent to 8 per cent.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1988 c. 34; section 34 was 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.1989/339, as amended by S.I.1991/524, 2036 and 2784, S.I. 1992/590 and 721 and S.I.1993/565.