Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
LEGAL AID, ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE
Made
3rd December 2001
To be laid before Parliament
Coming into operation
30th December 2001
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:—
1. These Rules may be cited as the Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (Costs) (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2001, and shall come into operation on 30th December 2001.
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 “31st December 2001” there shall be substituted the date “31st December 2002”.
Irvine of Lairg, C.
Dated 3rd December 2001
We approve
John Heppell
Tony McNulty
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
Dated 10th December 2001
(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 31st December 2001 to 31st December 2002.
S.I. 1981/228 (N.I. 8)
S.I. 1982/159
S.R. 1992 No. 314; to which the most recent relevant amendment was made by S.R. 2001 No. 251