
1 
Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance at Police Stations (Remuneration) (Amendment) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 1st April 1992.
2 
In these Regulations a regulation referred to by number means a regulation so numbered in the Legal Advice and Assistance at Police Stations (Remuneration) Regulations 1989and a reference to the Schedule means the Schedule to those Regulations.
3 

(1) In regulation 2–
(a) after the definition of “area committee” there shall be inserted the following new definition:“
 “business day” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971;”;
(b) In the definition of “unsocial hours” for the words from “weekday” to the end of the definition there shall be substituted the words “business day and any time on a day which is not a business day;”
4 
For sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 1 of the Schedule there shall be substituted, in respect of work done on or after 1st April 1992, the following sub-paragraph–“
1 

(1) The Board shall, subject to paragraph 2 in the case of item (a), allow fees for work allowed by it under regulation 5 at the following rates:

Class of work Rate

(a) availability during duty period £3.50 per hour served, to a maximum of £84 (£3.55 per hour served to a maximum of £85.20 in respect of a solicitor whose office is situated within legal aid area 1)

(b) advice and assistance to a person arrested and held in custody, or being interviewed in connection with a serious offence or to a volunteer, given

(i) by a duty solicitor in unsocial hours £57.50 per hour

(ii) by a duty solicitor in all other hours £43.50 per hour (£46.50 per hour in respect of a solicitor whose office is situated within legal aid area 1)

(iii) by an own solicitor £43.50 per hour (£46.50 per hour in respect of a solicitor whose office is situated within legal aid area 1)

(c) Travelling and waiting

(i) by a duty solicitor in unsocial hours £57.50 per hour

(ii) by a duty solicitor in in all other hours £43.50 per hour (£46.50 per hour in respect of a solicitor whose office is situated within legal aid area 1)

(iii) by an own solicitor £24.25 per hour

(d) advising and assisting over the telephone £19.75 per item (£20.50 per item in respect of a solicitor whose office is situated within legal aid area 1)

(e) routine telephone calls £2.25 per item (£2.40 per item in respect of a solicitor whose office is situated within legal aid area 1)”
Mackay of Clashfern, C.
6th March 1992We consent,
Irvine Patnick
Gregory Knight
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
Dated 9th March 1992