The Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) (Amendment) Regulations 1992

• Citation: S.I. 1992/720
• Sections: 8

Section 1

These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) (Amendment) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 6th April 1992.

Section 2

In these Regulations a regulation or Schedule referred to by number means a regulation or Schedule so numbered in the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) Regulations 1989 .

Section 3

In regulation 3 after the definition of “Court of Appeal” there shall be inserted the following new definitions—

“disability living allowance” means a disability living allowance under section 37ZA of the Social Security Act 1975 ;

“disability working allowance” means a disability working allowance under section 20(6A) of the Social Security Act 1986 ;

Section 4

For regulation 4 there shall be substituted the following new regulation:—

Forms

(4) Forms 1 and 5 in Schedule 2 shall be used where applicable and the remaining forms in Schedule 2, or forms to the like effect, may be used with such variations as the circumstances may require.

Section 5

In regulation 26(3)(c) and regulation 37(1)(a), in paragraphs 2 and 6 of Form 5 in Schedule 2 and in paragraph 16(b)(ii) of Schedule 3 for the words “or family credit” there shall be substituted in each place the words “, family credit or disability working allowance”.

Section 6

In Schedule 2—

(a) in paragraph 2(1)(b) of Form 5 for the words “The Income Support” there shall be substituted the word “Your”;

(b) for Part Two of Form 6 in Schedule 2 there shall be substituted the following:—

(c) in relation to proceedings commenced on or after 14th October 1991, Form 16 shall be omitted.

Section 7

In Schedule 3—

(a) for paragraph 6(b) there shall be substituted the following new sub-paragraph—

(b) disability living allowance;

(b) in paragraph 16(a) after “1975” there shall be inserted the words “or disability living allowance” and at the end of the paragraph there shall be inserted the words “or his disability”;

(c) at the end of paragraph 16(b)(i) there shall be inserted the words “or disability living allowance”.

Section 8

In Schedule 4—

(a) for the table there shall be substituted the following new table:—

(b) for the figure “£85” below the table there shall be substituted the figure “£89”.