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2003 No. 526

LEGAL AID AND ADVICE

The Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (Costs) (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2003

  Made 4th December 2003 
  To be laid before Parliament
  Coming into operation 31st 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 and the Attorney General 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 No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2003, and shall come into operation on 31st December 2003.

Alteration of date
     2. In rules 6(3) and 9(5)(a) of the Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (Costs) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1992[3] for the date "31st December 2003" there shall be substituted the date "1st July 2004".



Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor


Lord Filkin
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department for Constitutional Affairs
Dated 4th December 2003



We approve


Jim Murphy

Derek Twigg
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

Dated 10th 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 so as to alter the date after which certain work may be remunerated at discretionary instead of prescribed rates from 31st December 2003 to 1st July 2004.

Notes:

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

[2] S.I. 1982/159back

[3] S.R. 1992 No. 314; to which the most recent relevant amendment was made by S.R. 2002 No. 376back


ISBN 0 33795352 X


  © Crown copyright 2003

Prepared 16 January 2004

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