
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 17th May 2004.
2 
In these Regulations “the principal regulations” means the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981.
3 
In paragraph 1A of Schedule 1 to the principal regulations for the words “a man and a woman who are living with each other in the same household as husband and wife” there shall be substituted “a client and anyone with whom the client normally resides as a couple, including a person of the same sex,”.
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
Lord Filkin
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department for Constitutional Affairs
Dated 24th March 2004We approve
John Heppell
Jim Murphy
Two of the Lord’s Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
Dated 1st April 2004