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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 11th November 1991.
(2) Regulations 3 and 4 shall apply to any assessment or review of a claim for costs made in respect of work done on or after 11th November 1991 and costs payable in respect of work done before that date shall be assessed or reviewed as if these Regulations had not been made.
2 
In these Regulations a regulation or Schedule referred to by number means a regulation or Schedule so numbered in the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989.
3 
In regulation 30—
(a) in paragraph (1) for “paragraph (2)” there shall be substituted “paragraphs (2) and (3)”;
(b) after paragraph (2) there shall be inserted the following new paragraph—“
(3) Where the claim is in respect of ABWOR to which Part III of the Act applies by virtue of regulation 9(a) of the Scope Regulations, paragraph (1) shall apply as if Schedule 6 to these Regulations were substituted for Schedule 1, Part I, paragraph 1(1)(a) to the Costs Regulations.”.
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After Schedule 5 there shall be inserted the following new Schedule—“
SCHEDULE 6
Regulation 30(3)


Class of work Rate
Preparation £50.50 per hour— (£54 per hour for a fee-earner whose office is situated within legal aid area 1)
Advocacy £ 61 per hour
Attendance at court where counsel assigned £28.50 per hour
Travelling and waiting £23.50 per hour
Routine letters written and routine telephone calls £3.60 per item”
Mackay of Clashfern, C.
Dated 15th October 1991We consent,
Irvine Patnick
Gregory Knight
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
Dated 17th October 1991