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Legal Advice and Assistance (Financial Conditions) (No. 4) Regulations 1975

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 1 Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1975/1866
Year1975

1975 No. 1866

LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, ENGLAND

The Legal Advice and Assistance (Financial Conditions) (No. 4) Regulations 1975

20thOctober 1975

27thOctober 1975

1stJanuary 1976

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. 4) Regulations 1975 and shall come into operation on 1st January 1976.

(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, "the Act" means the Legal Aid Act 1974 and other expressions have the same meaning as in that Act.

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

2. For the purposes of section 1 of the Act and subject to the provisions thereof, as amended by the Legal Advice and Assistance (Financial Conditions) (No. 2) Regulations 1975(c), advice and assistance shall be available for any person if his disposable income does not exceed £30 a week.

Elwyn-Jones, C.

Dated 20th October 1975.

(a) 1974 c. 4.

(b) 1889 c. 63.

(c) S.I. 1975/856 (1975 II, p. 3070).

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 from £29 a week to £30 a week.

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