The Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) Regulations 1990

• Citation: S.I. 1990/486
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 9th April 1990.

Section 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations a regulation or Schedule referred to by number means a regulation or Schedule so numbered in the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989 .

Section 3 Amendment of the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989

(1) In paragraph (1) of regulation 11 for the figure “£890” there shall be substituted the figure “£935”.

(2) In paragraph (5) of regulation 22 after the words “An application for approval” there shall be inserted the words “, except in respect of ABWOR to which Part III of the Act applies by virtue of regulation 9 of the Scope Regulations,”.

(3) For paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 there shall be substituted the following new paragraph—

(6) If it appears to the solicitor that the person concerned has, with intent to reduce the amount of his disposable capital or disposable income, whether for the purpose of making himself eligible for advice and assistance, reducing his liability to pay a contribution in respect of the costs of advice and assistance or otherwise—

(a) directly or indirectly deprived himself of any resources; or

(b) converted any part of his resources into resources which are to be left out of account wholly or partly;

the resources of which he has so deprived himself or which he has so converted shall be treated as part of his resources or as not so converted as the case may be.

(4) For the table specified in Schedule 3 there shall be substituted the following table—