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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 7th October 1996.
(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981 and a Regulation or Schedule referred to by number shall mean the Regulation or Schedule so numbered in the principal Regulations.
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The principal Regulations shall be amended as follows:—
(a) in Regulation 3, after the definition of “the Fund” there shall be inserted the following definition—“
 “income-based jobseeker’s allowance” has the meaning given by Article 3(4) of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995, but, except for the purposes of paragraph (e) of Schedule 4, excludes any sum treated as payable by way of a jobseeker’s allowance by virtue of Article 28 of that Order;”;
(b) in Regulations 5(2)(b), 6(2)(b) and 7(2) after the words “income support,” on each occasion there shall be inserted the words “income-based jobseeker’s allowance,”;
(c) after paragraph 6(b) of Schedule 1 there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—“
(c) there shall be left out of account so much of any back to work bonus received under Article 28 of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 as is by virtue of that Article to be treated as payable by way of a jobseeker’s allowance.”;
(d) in paragraph (e) of Schedule 4, after the words “income support” there shall be inserted “, income-based jobseeker’s allowance,”.
Mackay of Clashfern, C.
Dated 23rd August 1996We concur
Bowen Wells
Roger Knapman
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
Dated 2nd September 1996