The Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1991

• Citation: S.I. 1991/2305
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation, commencement and transitional provisions

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 11th November 1991.

(2) Regulations 3 and 4 shall apply to any assessment or review of a claim for costs made in respect of work done on or after 11th November 1991 and costs payable in respect of work done before that date shall be assessed or reviewed as if these Regulations had not been made.

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 to the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989

In regulation 30—

(a) in paragraph (1) for “paragraph (2)” there shall be substituted “paragraphs (2) and (3)”;

(b) after paragraph (2) there shall be inserted the following new paragraph—

(3) Where the claim is in respect of ABWOR to which Part III of the Act applies by virtue of regulation 9(a) of the Scope Regulations, paragraph (1) shall apply as if Schedule 6 to these Regulations were substituted for Schedule 1, Part I, paragraph 1(1)(a) to the Costs Regulations.

Section 4 Amendment to the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989

After Schedule 5 there shall be inserted the following new Schedule—

FEES FOR ABWOR IN MENTAL HEALTH REVIEW TRIBUNALS