The Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) Regulations 1995

Made: 16th March 1995

Laid before Parliament: 17th March 1995

Coming into force: 10th April 1995

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:—

Citation, commencement and interpretation provisions

1

• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 10th April 1995.

• (2) In these Regulations a regulation referred to by number alone means a regulation so numbered in the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989[^f00002].

Transitional provisions

2

These Regulations shall apply to applications for advice and assistance made on or after 10th April 1995 and applications made before that date shall be treated as if these Regulations had not come into force.

Amendments to the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989

3

Regulation 11 shall be amended by substituting “£72” for “£70” in paragraph (1), and by substituting “£156” for “£153” in paragraph (2).

4

Regulation 12 shall be amended by substituting “£64” for “£63” in each of the places where that amount is stated in paragraphs (1), (2) and (5), and by substituting “£156” for “£153” in paragraph (1).

Signed

Mackay of Clashfern, C. — Dated 14th March 1995

We consent,

Andrew Mitchell — Derek Conway — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — Dated 16th March 1995

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989. They increase the income limits for legal advice and assistance as follows:—

for legal advice and assistance (other than assistance by way of representation “ABWOR”) from £70 to £72;

for non–contributory ABWOR from £63 to £64;

for contributory ABWOR from £153 to £156.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1988 c. 34; sections 34 and 43 were amended by the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41), Schedule 18, paragraphs 60 and 63. Section 43 is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meaning assigned to the word “regulations”.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1989/340; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1990/486, 1992/719, 1993/790 and 1994/805.