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2003 No. 511

LEGAL AID AND ADVICE

The Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (Costs) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2003

  Made 1st December 2003 
  To be laid before Parliament
  Coming into operation 22nd December 2003 

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 36(3) of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981[1], and now vested in him[2], after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice, the Attorney General, the Crown Court Rules Committee, the County Court Rules Committee and the Magistrates' Courts Rules Committee and with the approval of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement
     1. These Rules may be cited as the Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (Costs) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 26th December 2003.

Interpretation
    
2. In these Rules "the principal rules" means the Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (Costs) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1992[3].

Amendment to the principal rules
     3. Rule 2 of the principal rules (interpretation) shall be amended as follows: -

    (1) After the definition of "counsel" there shall be inserted the following definition -

    (2) After the definition of "disbursements" there shall be inserted the following definition -

     4.  - (1) For rule 4(1) of the principal rules there shall be substituted the following new provision -

    (2) After rule 4(1) of the principal rules there shall be inserted -



Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor


Lord Filkin
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department for Constitutional Affairs
Dated 1st December 2003



We approve


Nick Ainger

John Heppell
Two of the Lord's Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

Dated 4th December 2003



EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Rules.)


These Rules amend the Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (Costs) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1992 to provide that those rules do not apply to the determination of costs in respect of diversionary youth conferences and attendance at court-ordered youth conferences.

The remuneration for solicitors and counsel assigned under Articles 28, 28A, 29 and 30 of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 in respect of diversionary youth conferences and attendance at court-ordered youth conferences is prescribed under the Legal Aid for Youth Conferences (Costs) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2003.


Notes:

[1] S.I. 1981/228 (N.I. 8)back

[2] S.I. 1982/159back

[3] S.R. 1992 No. 314, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Rulesback

[4] S.I. 1998/1504 (N.I. 9); Article 33A was inserted by section 59 of the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002 (c. 26) and Article 10A was inserted by section 58 of that Actback



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  © Crown copyright 2003

Prepared 23 January 2004


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