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Legal Aid Act 1988

1988 CHAPTER 34

An Act to make new provision for the administration of, and to revise the law relating to, legal aid, advice and assistance.

[29th July 1988]

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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C1Act amended (1.1.1992) by S.I. 1991/2684, arts. 4, 5, Schedule1

C2By Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), s. 101(1), Sch. 12 para.23; S.I. 1991/2208, art. 2(1), Sch.1 it is provided (14.10.1991) that in relation to any time before the commencement of s. 70 of that 1991 Act (which came into force on 1.10.1992 by S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch. 2) references in any enactment amended by that 1991 Act, to youth courts shall be construed as references to juvenile courts.

C3Act modified (E.W.) (prosp.) by 1996 c. 27, ss. 23(8), 67(3) (with Sch. 9 para. 5)

Act extended (22.5.2000) by S.I. 2000/1119, regs. 1, 14, Sch. 3 Pt. 1

Act applied (with modifications) (28.8.2000) by 2000 c. 25, s. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 8; S.I. 2000/2125, art. 2

Act applied (E.W.) (with modifications) (2.10.2000) by S.I. 2000/2227, reg. 4

C4Act: functions of the Lord Chancellor transferred to the Secretary of State (19.8.2003) by The Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1887), art. 4, Sch. 1

C5Act: functions of the Secretary of State transferred to the Lord Chancellor (12.1.2006) by The Transfer of Functions (Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3429), art. 3(1)(a) (with arts. 4, 5)

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