The Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1999

• Citation: S.I. 1999/2089
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 1st September 1999.

Section 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations, “the 1989 Regulations ” means the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989 , and a Regulation referred to by number alone means the Regulation so numbered in those Regulations.

Section 3 Amendments to the 1989 Regulations

In Regulation 3,

(a) after the definition of “Costs Regulations” the following shall be inserted:

“customs office” has the meaning assigned to it by article 2(1) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Application to Customs and Excise) Order 1985 ;

“customs officer” means officer as defined in article 2(1) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Application to Customs and Excise) Order 1985;

(b) in the definition of “volunteer”:

(i) the words “or a customs office” shall be inserted after “police station” each time it appears; and

(ii) the words “or customs officer” shall be inserted after “constable” each time it appears.