S.I. No. 125/1988:

COURTS-MARTIAL (LEGAL AID) REGULATIONS, 1988.

COURTS-MARTIAL (LEGAL AID) REGULATIONS, 1988.

I, MICHAEL J. NOONAN, Minister for Defence, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by Section 33 of the Courts-Martial Appeals Act, 1983 (No. 19 of 1983), and, in so far as these Regulations are in relation to rates or scales of payment of fees, costs or expenses payable out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas pursuant to legal aid certificates, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, hereby make the following Regulations:

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Courts-Martial (Legal Aid) Regulations, 1988.

(2) The Courts-Martial (Legal Aid) Regulations, 1986 and 1987, and these Regulations may be cited together as the Courts-Martial (Legal Aid) Regulations, 1986 to 1988.

2. In these Regulations "the Principal Regulations" means the Courts-Martial (Legal Aid) Regulations, 1986 ( S.I. No. 425 of 1986 ).

3. The Principal Regulations (as amended by the Courts-Martial (Legal Aid) Regulations, 1987 ( S.I. No. 46 of 1987 )) are hereby amended, with effect from the 27th day of April, 1988,--

(a) by the substitution in Regulation 12 (2) (a) of "£99.24" for "£96.82" and of "£44.14" for "£43.06", and

(b) by the substitution in Regulation 14 of "£25.73" for "£25.10".

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 16th day of June 1988.

MICHAEL J. NOONAN,

Minister for Defence.

The Minister for Finance hereby consents to the making of the foregoing Regulations in so far as they are in relation to rates or scales of payment of fees, costs or expenses.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance, this 16th day of June, 1988.

RAY McSHARRY.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These regulations provide for increases with effect from 27th April, 1988 in the legal aid fees payable to solicitors in respect of certain attendances at courts-martial and visits to prisons, detention barracks and other custodial centres.