The Civil Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) Regulations 1991

• Citation: S.I. 1991/524
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) Regulations 1991.

(2) Regulation 3(2) shall come into force on 1st July 1991 and the other regulations shall come into force on 1st April 1991.

Section 2 Interpretation

In regulation 3 of these Regulations a regulation referred to by number means a regulation so numbered in the Civil Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1989 .

Section 3 Amendment of the Civil Legal (General) Regulations 1989

(1) In paragraph (2) of regulation 104 the words after “Part 1,” shall be deleted and there shall be inserted the words “paragraph 1(1)(a) to the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (Costs) Regulations 1989 as if the work done was work to which those provisions apply, save that paragraph 2 and 3 of Schedule 1, Part I shall not apply.”.

(2) In regulation 105—

(a) After paragraph (2) there shall be inserted the following new paragraph—

(2A) Where proceedings have begun and the solicitor is of the opinion that the total amount which he and counsel (if any) would receive after taxation on the standard basis would not be more than £500 he must apply to the Area Director for an assessment of the amount of his costs and counsel’s fees (if any) in respect of the work done.

(b) In paragraph (3) before the word “Where” there shall be inserted the words “Subject to paragraph (2A),” and for the figure “£500” there shall be substituted the figure “£1,O00”.