The Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment) Regulations 1992

• Citation: S.I. 1992/718
• Sections: 6

Section 1

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 6th April 1992.

Section 2

Save as is otherwise provided, in these Regulations a regulation or Schedule referred to by number means a regulation or Schedule so numbered in the Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1989 .

Section 3

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), these Regulations shall apply any assessment or reassessment of resources under the Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1989 where the period of computation begins on or after 6th April 1992 and the provisions of those Regulations shall apply to any assessment or reassessment in which the period of computation begins before that date as if these Regulations had never been made.

(2) Regulation 5 of these Regulations shall apply to all assessments and reassessments made on or after 6th April 1992.

(3) In this regulation “period of computation” has the meaning assigned by regulation 3.

Section 4

In regulation 4—

(a) in paragraph (2) for the figures “£6,350” and “£6,310” there shall be substituted the figures “£6,800” and £6,75” respectively;

(b) in paragraph (3) for the figures “£7,000” and “£8,000” there shall be substituted the figures “£7,500” and £8,560” respectively;

(c) in paragraph (4)(a) for the figure “£2,860” there shall be substituted the figure “£3,060”.

Section 5

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

(b) disability living allowance paid under section 37ZA of the Social Security Act 1975 ;

Section 6

For the table in paragraph 14A of Schedule 3 there shall be substituted the following new table:—