2006 No. 80

LEGAL AID AND ADVICE

Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Made

To be laid before Parliament

Coming into operation

The Lord Chancellor makes the following Regulations 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:

Citation and commencement1

These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 and shall come into operation on 27th March 2006.

Amendment to the principal regulations2

In regulation 1(2) of the Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 19813 for “Department of Health and Social Services” substitute “Department for Social Development”.

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

Bridget PrenticeParliamentary Under-Secretary of State,Department for Constitutional Affairs

We approve

Gillian MerronTom WatsonTwo of the Lord’s Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981, as a consequence of the Departments (Northern Ireland) Order 1999, to substitute the Department for Social Development for the reference made to the Department of Health and Social Services.