The Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 1999

• Citation: S.I. 1999/2577
• Sections: 5

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 5th October 1999.

Section 2 Interpretation

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

Section 3 Transitional provisions

(1) These Regulations shall apply to applications for legal aid made on or after 5th October 1999.

(2) Where a person at any time on or after 5th October 1999 receives family credit or disability working allowance under Part VII of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 in pursuance of a decision made before that date, his disposable income shall be assessed as if these Regulations had not come into force.

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

In regulation 26(3), for “income-based jobseeker’s allowance, income support, family credit or disability working allowance” there shall be substituted “any qualifying benefit”.

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

After regulation 26(3) there shall be inserted:–

(3A) The following are qualifying benefits for the purposes of paragraph (3) above:–

(a) income support;

(b) working families' tax credit, provided that the amount (if any) to be deducted under section 128(2)(b) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 has been determined at not more than £70 a week;

(c) disabled person’s tax credit, provided that the amount (if any) to be deducted under section 129(5)(b) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 has been determined at not more than £70 a week; and

(d) income-based jobseeker’s allowance.