The Legal Advice and Assistance at Police Stations (Remuneration) Regulations 1989

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,–

“the 1988 Act” means the Legal Aid Act 1988;

“advice” and“assistance” mean respectively advice and assistance under the 1988 Act;

“appropriate area committee” means the area committee in whose area is situated the police station or other premises at which a solicitor has given advice or assistance in accordance with arrangements made by the Board under regulation 6 of the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989(1);

“area committee” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 4 of the Civil Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1989(2);

“duty period” means any period of 24 hours during which a duty solicitor holds himself available to give advice and assistance in accordance with a duty solicitor scheme;

“duty solicitor” means any solicitor, and any representative of a solicitor, who provides advice and assistance in accordance with a duty solicitor scheme;

“duty solicitor scheme” means any arrangements made by the Board under regulation 6 of the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989(3);

“own solicitor” means a solicitor who gives advice and assistance to a person arrested and held in custody or to a volunteer otherwise than as a duty solicitor;

“serious service offence” means an offence under any of the Army Act 1955(4), the Air Force Act 1955(5) or the Naval Discipline Act 1957(6) which cannot be dealt with summarily or which appears to an interviewing service policeman to be serious;

“unsocial hours” means between the hours of 5.30 pm and 9.30 am on any weekday and any time on a Saturday, Sunday or bank holiday;

“volunteer” means a person who, for the purpose of assisting with an investigation, attends voluntarily at a police station or at any other place where a constable is present or accompanies a constable to a police station or any such other place without having been arrested.

(1)

S.I. 1989/340.

(2)

S.I. 1989/339.

(3)

S.I. 1989/340.

(4)

1955 c. 18.

(5)

1955 c. 19.

(6)

1957 c. 53.