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

Made18th February 2006

To be laid before Parliament

Coming into operation27th March 2006

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 Prentice

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department for Constitutional Affairs

Dated 18th February 2006

We approve

Gillian Merron

Tom Watson

Two of the Lord’s Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

Dated 27th February 2006

(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.