
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid (Costs of Successful Unassisted Parties) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 and shall come into operation on 5th December 2005.
2 
In these Regulations “the principal regulations” means the Legal Aid (Costs of Successful Unassisted Parties) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1965.
3 
In regulation 1(2) of the principal regulations after the definition of “chief clerk” there shall be inserted —“
 “civil partner” has the meaning assigned to it by section 1 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004;”
4 
In paragraph 6 of the Schedule to the principal regulations—
(a) for the words “has had, a spouse” there shall be substituted the words “has had, a spouse or civil partner”;
(b) for the words “specify that spouse’s financial resources, expectations and commitments, unless she had” there shall be substituted the words “specify that spouse’s or civil partner’s financial resources, expectations and commitments, unless the spouse or civil partner had”; and
(c) for the words “and his spouse are” there shall be substituted the words “and his spouse or civil partner are”.
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
Bridget Prentice
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department for Constitutional Affairs
Dated 1st November 2005