1988 No. 2303
The Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (General) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1988
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
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These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (General) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st February 1989.
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In these Regulations, a regulation referred to by number means the regulation so numbered in the Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (General) Regulations 19683.
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Regulation 14D(1) shall be amended as follows—
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for the words “to incur costs”, there shall be substituted the words “for costs to be incurred”;
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the word “or” at the end of sub-paragraph (c) shall be omitted, and
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after sub-paragraph (c), there shall be inserted the following new sub-paragraph—
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where a legal aid order provides for the services of solicitor and counsel, instructing a Queen’s Counsel alone without a junior counsel; or
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For regulation 14D(2), there shall be substituted the following new paragraph—
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If a criminal legal aid committee authorises the taking of any step specified in paragraph (1)(a), (b), (c) or (d), it shall also authorise the maximum fee payable for such report, opinion, expert evidence, transcript or act.
(This note is not part of the Regulations)