Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
LEGAL AID AND ADVICE
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:
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.
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
(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.
S.I. 1981/228 (N.I. 8)
S.I. 1982/159
S.R. 1992 No. 314; to which the most recent amendment was made by S.R. 2004 No. 262