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2004 No. 262

LEGAL AID AND ADVICE

The Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (Costs) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2004

  Made 7th June 2004 
  To be laid before Parliament
  Coming into operation 2nd July 2004 

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) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2004, and shall come into operation on 2nd July 2004.

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 "1st July 2004" there shall be substituted the date "1st January 2005".



Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor


Lord Filkin
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department for Constitutional Affairs
Dated 7th June 2004



We approve


John Heppell

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

Dated 10th June 2004


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 2nd July 2004 to 1st January 2005.

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. 2003 No. 526back


ISBN 0 33795579 4


  © Crown copyright 2004

Prepared 7 July 2004

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