1999 No. 95
LEGAL AID AND ADVICE

Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

Made
To be laid before Parliament
Coming into operation
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 5(3) and 27 of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 19811 and now vested in him2, hereby makes the following Regulations—

Citation and commencement1.

These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 29th March 1999.

Assistance by way of representation for applications under the Family Homes and Domestic Violence (Northern Ireland) Order 19982.

In paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 19813 after sub-paragraph (i) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—

“(j)

under the Family Homes and Domestic Violence (Northern Ireland) Order 1998”.

Irvine of Lairg, C.
(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981 to extend assistance by way of representation to proceedings in a court of summary jurisdiction brought under the Family Homes and Domestic Violence (Northern Ireland) Order 1998.