This Statutory Instrument corrects an error in S.I. 2001/830 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

2001 No. 1255

LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Legal Aid in Family Proceedings (Remuneration) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2001

Made29th March 2001

Laid before Parliament30th March 2001

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 34 and 43 of the Legal Aid Act 19881, having had regard to the matters specified in section 34(9) of that Act and having consulted the General Council of the Bar and the Law Society, and with the consent of the Treasury, makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement1

These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid in Family Proceedings (Remuneration) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 2nd April 2001 immediately after the Legal Aid in Family Proceedings (Remuneration) (Amendment) Regulations 20012.

Transitional provision2

These Regulations shall apply to work carried out on or after 2nd April 2001, and in relation to work carried out before that date the Legal Aid in Family Proceedings (Remuneration) Regulations 19913 shall have effect as if these Regulations had not been made.

Amendments to the Legal Aid in Family Proceedings (Remuneration) Regulations 19913

In paragraph 9 in Part III of Schedule 1A to the Legal Aid in Family Proceedings (Remuneration) Regulations 1991, for the whole of the entry in column 3 there shall be substituted “£71.50 per hour”.

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

Jane KennedyParliamentary SecretaryLord Chancellor’s DepartmentDated 28th March 2001

We consent

Jim DowdGreg PopeTwo of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s TreasuryDated 29th March 2001

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which amend the Legal Aid in Family Proceedings (Remuneration) Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/2038), make one correction to the amendments made by the Legal Aid in Family Proceedings (Remuneration) (Amendment) Regulations 2001. The rate of remuneration for attending without counsel at the trial or hearing of any cause or the hearing of any summons or other application at court or other appointment, in a county court or magistrates' court, is amended to £71.50 per hour.