Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005
Legal aid and advice
Civil partnership
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LEGAL AID AND ADVICE
These Regulations amend the Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981 to insert references to the legal status of civil partners, as created by the provisions of the Civil Partnership Act 2004, to ensure an application for legal aid from any person who is in a civil partnership is determined in a manner consistent with the existing Regulations.
2005 No. 501
LEGAL AID AND ADVICE
Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005
Made
To be laid before Parliament
Coming into operation
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 14, 22 and 27 of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 19811, and now vested in him2, hereby makes the following Regulations: