The Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (Costs) (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2004

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2004 No. 510

LEGAL AID AND ADVICE

The Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (Costs) (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2004

Made

3rd December 2004

To be laid before Parliament

Coming into operation

1st January 2005

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:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Rules may be cited as the Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (Costs) (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2004, and shall come into operation on 1st January 2005.

Alteration of date

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 “1st January 2005” there shall be substituted the date “30th June 2005”.

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

Baroness Ashton of Upholland

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department for Constitutional Affairs

Dated 3rd December 2004

We approve

Joan Ryan

Nick Ainger

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

Dated 9th December 2004

Explanatory Note

(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 1st January 2005 to 30th June 2005.

(1)

S.I. 1981/228 (N.I. 8)

(2)

S.I. 1982/159

(3)

S.R. 1992 No. 314; to which the most recent amendment was made by S.R. 2004 No. 262