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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Legal Services (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 and shall come into operation on 11th October 2016.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the instrument set out in the Schedule to these Regulations shall be revoked to the extent shown in that Schedule.
(3) Nothing in the provisions revoked by these Regulations shall take effect in relation to any of the circumstances to which Article 3(1)(a) to (d) of the Access to Justice (2003 Order) (Commencement No. 7, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 applies.
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The Civil Legal Services (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 are amended as follows.
3 
After regulation 26(3), insert—“
(4) If a certificate is revoked under this regulation, the Director shall notify the supplier and the assisted party in writing and shall include the reasons for such revocation.
(5) It shall be the duty of the supplier to notify, as soon as practicable, instructed counsel in proceedings to which the certificate relates, that the certificate has been revoked.”.
4 
In regulation 35(1), for the words “or (hh)” substitute “, (hh) or (ja) to (jc)”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Justice on 19th September 2016
Claire Sugden
Minister of Justice

SCHEDULE
Regulation 1(2)


Title Registered Number Regulation Revoked
  
The Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981 No. 366 Regulations 3, 8A(1), 17(1) and (2), 17(3)(b)(iv) to (vi), 18 and 19A