The Legal Advice and Assistance at Police Stations (Remuneration) (Amendment) Regulations 1992

• Citation: S.I. 1992/594
• Sections: 4

Section 1

Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance at Police Stations (Remuneration) (Amendment) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 1st April 1992.

Section 2

In these Regulations a regulation referred to by number means a regulation so numbered in the Legal Advice and Assistance at Police Stations (Remuneration) Regulations 1989 and a reference to the Schedule means the Schedule to those Regulations.

Section 3

(1) In regulation 2–

(a) after the definition of “area committee” there shall be inserted the following new definition:

“business day” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 ;

(b) In the definition of “unsocial hours” for the words from “weekday” to the end of the definition there shall be substituted the words “business day and any time on a day which is not a business day;”

Section 4

For sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 1 of the Schedule there shall be substituted, in respect of work done on or after 1st April 1992, the following sub-paragraph–

(1)

(1) The Board shall, subject to paragraph 2 in the case of item (a), allow fees for work allowed by it under regulation 5 at the following rates:

(a) availability during duty period

(b) advice and assistance to a person arrested and held in custody, or being interviewed in connection with a serious offence or to a volunteer, given

(i) by a duty solicitor in unsocial hours

(ii) by a duty solicitor in all other hours

(iii) by an own solicitor

(c) Travelling and waiting

(i) by a duty solicitor in unsocial hours

(ii) by a duty solicitor in in all other hours

(iii) by an own solicitor

(d) advising and assisting over the telephone

(e) routine telephone calls