The Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 1996

• Citation: S.I. 1996/2307
• Sections: 6

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 7th October 1996.

Section 2 Interpretation

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

Section 3 Amendments to the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) Regulations 1989

In regulation 3(1), the following shall be substituted for the definition of “income-based jobseeker’s allowance”:—

“income-based jobseeker’s allowance” has the meaning given by section 1(4) of the Jobseekers Act 1995 , but excludes any sum treated as payable by way of a jobseeker’s allowance by virtue of section 26 of that Act;

Section 4 Amendments to the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) Regulations 1989

In regulation 41A(2), for “paragraph (1)” there shall be substituted “paragraph (1)(a)”.

Section 5 Amendments to the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) Regulations 1989

The following shall be inserted after paragraph 6 of Schedule 3:—

(6A) In computing disposable income there shall be disregarded—

(a) so much of any back to work bonus received under section 26 of the Jobseekers Act 1995 as is by virtue of that section to be treated as payable by way of a jobseeker’s allowance;

(b) any payment made by the Secretary of State under the Earnings Top-up Scheme 1996 .

Section 6 Amendments to the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) Regulations 1989

Paragraph 16 of Schedule 3 shall be amended as follows:—

(a) in sub-paragraph (b)(ii), the final “and” shall be omitted;

(b) the following shall be inserted after sub-paragraph (c):—

; and

so much of any back to work bonus received under section 26 of the Jobseekers Act 1995 as is by virtue of that section to be treated as payable by way of a jobseeker’s allowance.