Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981

Interpretation of Part II and Schedules 1 and 2 N.I.

27.  In this Part and Schedules 1 and 2—

• “advice” and “assistance” mean respectively advice and assistance under this Part;

• “assistance by way of representation” has the meaning assigned to it by Article 5(1);

• “Law Society” means the Incorporated Law Society of Northern Ireland;

• “legal aid” means legal aid under this Part;

• “order for costs” includes any judgment, order, decree, award or direction for the payment of the costs of one party to any proceedings by another party, whether given or made in those proceedings or not;

• “person” does not include a body of persons corporate or unincorporate which is not concerned in a representative, fiduciary or official capacity so as to authorise legal aid, advice or assistance to be given to such a body;

• “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations;

• “regulations” means regulations made by the[F1 Lord Chancellor] under this Part;

• “solicitor” means a solicitor of the[F2 Court of Judicature];

• “statutory inquiry” means an inquiry or hearing held or to be held in pursuance of a duty imposed by any statutory provision;

• “statutory provision” has the meaning assigned to it by section 1( f) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 [1954 c.33] ;

• “tribunal” includes an inquiry or proceedings before an arbitrator or umpire, however appointed, whether such inquiry or proceedings take place under a reference by consent or otherwise.

F1 SI 1982/159

F2 Words in art. 27 substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59(5), 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 6; S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)