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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 and shall come into operation on 27th March 2006.
(2) In these Regulations “principal regulations” means the Legal Aid (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1965.
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In regulation 3B(1) of the principal regulations after the words “judgments in civil and commercial matters” there shall be inserted the following words – “or who applies for either the registration of or the registration and enforcement of a judgment under Council Regulation (EC) No. 2201/2003 of 27 November 2003 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility”.
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(1) In each of the provisions in the principal regulations listed in paragraph (2), for “Department of Health and Social Services” substitute “Department for Social Development”.
(2) The provisions referred to in paragraph (1) are regulations 1(2), 3(4)(b), 3(6), 4(6), 5(2), 5(4), 5(5)(b), 5(8), 6(3), 6(4), 6(5)(a), 6(5)(b), 6(6), 6(10)(b)(i), 7(b), 7(c), 9(1)(d), 10(1)(a), 11(1), 12(3)(a), 13(6), 13(7) and 18(2)(a).
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
Bridget Prentice
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department for Constitutional Affairs
Dated 18th February 2006We approve
Gillian Merron
Tom Watson
Two of the Lord’s Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
Dated 27th February 2006