Criminal Justice (Legal Aid) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

• Year: 2024

STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

S.I. No.742of2024

Criminal Justice (Legal Aid) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 3 rd January, 2025.

I, HELEN MCENTEE, Minister for Justice, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 10 (1)(b) of the Criminal Justice (Legal Aid) Act 1962 (No. 12 of 1962) (as adapted by the Justice and Equality (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 452 of 2020)), with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, hereby make the following regulations:

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Criminal Justice (Legal Aid) (Amendment) Regulations 2024.

(2) The Criminal Justice (Legal Aid) Regulations 1965 to 2023 and these Regulations may be cited together as the Criminal Justice (Legal Aid) Regulations 1965 to 2024.

(3) These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 January 2025.

2. (1) The scales of payment of fees payable to a solicitor assigned, pursuant to a legal aid certificate, to a person charged before the District Court or to an appellant in the Circuit Court shall, from 1 January 2025, be those specified in Part 1 of Schedule 1.

(2) The rate of payment of fee payable to a solicitor assigned, pursuant to a legal aid certificate, to a person before the Circuit Court or Special Criminal Court in relation to an application to be admitted to bail that is contested by the...