Statutory Instrument 1988 No. 666
The Legal Advice and Assistance (Financial Conditions) Regulations 1988
(The document as of February, 2008)
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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
1988 No. 666
LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Legal Advice and Assistance (Financial Conditions) Regulations 1988
| Laid before Parliament | 9th March 1988 |
| Coming into force | 11th April 1988 |
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 1, 20 and 25 of the Legal Aid Act 1974[1], hereby makes the following Regulations:—
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Financial Conditions) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 11th April 1988.
(2) In these Regulations,"the Act" means the Legal Aid Act 1974.
(3) The Regulations specified in the first column of the Schedule shall be revoked to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.
2. For the weekly sum of £118 specified in section 1(1)(a) of the Act, there shall be substituted the weekly sum of £122.
3. For the capital sum of £825 specified in section 1(1) of the Act, there shall be substituted the sum of £850, except in relation to assistance by way of representation (for which the sum remains £3,000[2]).
Mackay of Clashfern,
C.
Dated 8th March 1988
Notes:[1] 1974 c. 4; section 1 was amended by the Legal Aid Act 1979 (c. 26), Schedule 1, paragraph 9, by the Administration of Justice Act 1985 (c. 61), section 45, by the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50), Schedule 10, paragraph 46 and by S.I. 1986/643 and 1987/627; section 20 was amended by the Legal Aid Act 1979 (c. 26), section 4(2), by the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 (c. 27), section 40(1) and by the Legal Aid Act 1982 (c. 44), sections 1, 16; section 25 is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meaning assigned to the word"regulations".
[2] S.I. 1986/643.
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