The Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1996

• Citation: S.I. 1996/2308
• Sections: 8

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) (No. 3) 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 Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989.

Section 3 Amendments to the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989

In regulation 3(1), after the definition of “fund”there shall be inserted the following: —

“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 Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989

In regulation 9(4)(b) and (c), after “income support,”there shall be inserted “income-based jobseeker’s allowance,”.

Section 5 Amendments to the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989

In regulation 10(2)(b) and (c), after “income support,”there shall be inserted “income-based jobseeker’s allowance,”.

Section 6 Amendments to the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989

Regulation 13 shall be amended as follows: —

(a) in paragraph (2), after “income support,”there shall be inserted “income-based jobseeker’s allowance,”;

(b) in paragraph (3), after “income support”there shall be inserted “or income-based jobseeker’s allowance”.

Section 7 Amendments to the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989

After paragraph 7(2) of Schedule 2, there shall be inserted the following: —

(3) In computing the capital and income of the person concerned, there shall be left out of account 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.

Section 8 Amendments to the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989

After paragraph 9A of Schedule 2, there shall be inserted the following: —

(9B) In computing the disposable income of any person there shall be disregarded any payment made by the Secretary of State under the Earnings Top-up Scheme 1996 .