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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
2004 No. 167
LEGAL AID AND ADVICE
Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004
Made
24th March 2004
To be laid before Parliament
Coming into operation
17th May 2004
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 17th May 2004.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations “the principal regulations” means the Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981(3).
Amendment to the principal regulations
3. In regulation 7(3) of the principal regulations for the words “a man and a woman who are living with each other in the same household as husband and wife” there shall be substituted “the person concerned and anyone with whom the person concerned normally resides as a couple, including a person of the same sex,”.
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
Lord Filkin
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department for Constitutional Affairs
Dated 24th March 2004
We approve
John Heppell
Jim Murphy
Two of the Lord’s Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
Dated 1st April 2004
Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Regulations.)
These Regulations amend regulation 7(3) of the Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981 to provide that the resources of the person concerned and anyone with whom the person concerned normally resides as a couple, including a person of the same sex, are to be treated as the resources of the person concerned for the purpose of determining financial eligibility for legal aid under Part II of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.
(1)
S.I. 1981/228 (N.I. 8); Article 27 is an interpretation provision and is recited because of the meaning assigned to the words “prescribed” and “regulations”
(2)
S.I. 1982/159
(3)
S.R. 1981/189; to which the most recent relevant amendment was made by S.R. 1990 No. 105
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