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The Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) Regulations 1999

Type Statutory-Instrument

Publication 1999-03-12

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Made: 12th March 1999

Laid before Parliament: 16th March 1999

Coming into force: 12th April 1999

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 9, 34 and 43 of the Legal Aid Act 1988¹, and with the consent of the Treasury, makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement, interpretation and transitional provisions

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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 12th April 1999.

(2) In these Regulations, unless the context requires otherwise, a reference to a regulation by number alone means the regulation so numbered in the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989².

(3) These Regulations shall apply to applications for advice and assistance made on or after 12th April 1999 and applications made before that date shall be treated as if these Regulations had not come into force.

Amendment to Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989

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(1) Regulation 11 shall be amended by substituting:

(a) “£83” for “£80” in paragraph (1); and

(b) “£178” for “£172” in paragraph (2).

(2) Regulation 12 shall be amended by substituting:

(a) “£75” for “£72” in each of the places where that amount is stated in paragraphs (1), (2) and (5);

(b) “£178” for “£172” in paragraph (1).

Signed

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

G.W. Hoon — Minister of State, — Lord Chancellor’s Department — Dated 7th March 1999

We consent

Jane Kennedy — Jim Dowd — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — Dated 12th March 1999

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989, to increase the weekly income limits for legal advice and assistance (other than assistance by way of representation (“ABWOR”)) from £80 to £83; for non-contributory ABWOR from £72 to £75; and for contributory ABWOR from £172 to £178.

Footnotes

1988 c. 34; sections 34 and 43 were amended by the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41), Schedule 17, paragraph 19 and Schedule 18, paragraphs 60 and 63; and by the Family Law Act 1996 (c. 27), section 26 and Schedule 8, paragraph 44. Section 43 is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meaning given to “regulations”.

S.I. 1989/340; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1992/719, 1993/790, 1994/805, 1995/795. 1996/641, 1997/751 and 1998/663.

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