Statutory Instruments
LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
12th March 1987
Laid before Parliament
16th March 1987
Coming into force
6th April 1987
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (General) (Amendment) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 6th April 1987.
2. In the Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (General) Regulations 1968(4)-
(a)for the weekly sum of £46 specified in regulation 19(3)(a), there shall be substituted the weekly sum of £48; and
(b)for the sums specified in the Third Schedule, there shall be substituted the following sums:-
Exceeding £48 but not exceeding £54 | £1 |
Exceeding £54 but not exceeding £58 | £2 |
Exceeding £58 but not exceeding £62 | £3 |
Exceeding £62 but not exceeding £66 | £4 |
Exceeding £66 but not exceeding £70 | £5, |
and the weekly instalment of contribution shall be increased by £1 for each £4 or part of £4 by which average weekly disposable income exceeds £70.
Hailsham of St. Marylebone, C.
Dated 9th March 1987
We concur,
Mark Lennox-Boyd
Michael Neubert
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury
Dated 12th March 1987
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations increase from £46 to £48 a week the disposable income above which a person receiving legal aid in criminal proceedings under Part II of the Legal Aid Act 1974 is required, under the Legal Aid Act 1982, to pay a contribution and amend the scale of contributions.