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This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not necessarily in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that any subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.
Northern Ireland Orders in Council
8th July 1986
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1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1986.
(2) This Order shall come into operation on the expiration of twenty-one days from the day on which it is made.
2. The M1 Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to Article 1 and the following provisions of this Order as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
M11954 c. 33 (N.I.)
3. In Article 3 of the M1 Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (paragraph (2)(b) of which enables the disposable capital limit on eligibility for legal advice and assistance to be altered by regulations) after paragraph (2) there shall be inserted—
“(3) Regulations made by virtue of paragraph (2)(b) may provide for the substitution of different capital sums in relation to—
(a)advice and assistance other than assistance by way of representation; and
(b)assistance by way of representation.” .
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The Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1986