Legal Advice and Assistance (Financial Conditions) (No. 2) Regulations 1978

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1978/1568

1978 No. 1568

LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, ENGLAND

The Legal Advice and Assistance (Financial Conditions) (No. 2) Regulations 1978

23rdOctober 1978

1stNovember 1978

27thNovember 1978

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 1 and 20 of the Legal Aid Act 1974(a), hereby makes the following Regulations:—

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Financial Conditions) (No. 2) Regulations 1978 and shall come into operation on 27th November 1978.

(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, "the Act" means the Legal Aid Act 1974, "the 1977 Regulations" means the Legal Advice and Assistance (Financial Conditions) (No. 4) Regulations 1977(b), and other expressions have the same meaning as in the Act.

(3) The Interpretation Act 1889(c) shall apply to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

2. For the weekly sum of £48 specified in section 1(1)(a) of the Act, as amended by the 1977 Regulations, there shall be substituted the weekly sum of £52.

3. For the capital sum of £340 specified in section 1(1) of the Act, as amended by the 1977 Regulations, there shall be substituted the capital sum of £365.

Dated 23rd October 1978.

Elwyn-Jones, C.

(a) 1974 c. 4.

(b) S.I. 1977/1934.

(c) 1889 c. 63.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This Note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations increase the disposable income limit for the availability of legal advice and assistance under the Legal Aid Act 1974 from £48 to £52 a week and increase the disposable capital limit from £340 to £365.

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