http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/34/part/VIII/crossheading/supplementary/1991-08-21Legal Aid Act 1988An Act to make new provision for the administration of, and to revise the law relating to, legal aid, advice and assistance.1988-07-29texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2017-10-171991-08-21 Part VIII Miscellaneous Supplementary Amendments, repeals and transitional provisions.451The enactments specified in Schedule 5 to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments there specified.2Subject to subsection (4) below, the enactments specified in Schedule 6 to this Act are repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.3Where any enactment amended or repealed by subsection (1) or (2) above extends to the United Kingdom or any part of it, the amendment or repeal has a corresponding extent.4Schedule 7 to this Act shall have effect for the purpose of making the transitional and saving provisions set out there. Amendments of Legal Aid Act 1974 pending repeal.46The Legal Aid Act 1974 shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in Schedule 8 to this Act. Short title, commencement and extent.471This Act may be cited as the Legal Aid Act 1988.2Subject to subsections (3) and (4) below, this Act shall come into force on such day as the Lord Chancellor appoints by order and different days may be appointed for different provisions.3Section 44 and Schedule 4 shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State appoints by order and different days may be appointed for different provisions.4Sections 35 (together with the repeal of section 21 of the Legal Aid Act 1974) and 46 shall come into force on the date on which this Act is passed.5An order under subsection (2) or (3) above may contain such transitional and saving provisions as appear to the Lord Chancellor or, as the case may be, the Secretary of State necessary or expedient.6This Act, with the exception of sections 12(3) and 17(3), section 44 and Schedule 4 and the amendments or repeals of the enactments referred to in section 45(3), extends to England and Wales only and section 44 and Schedule 4 extend to Scotland only.Power of appointment conferred by s. 47(2) partly exercised: S.I. 1988/1361, 1989/288Power of appointment conferred by s. 47(3) partly exercised: S.I. 1988/13881974 c. 4.
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