Criminal Justice (Legal Aid) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1993

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Year: 1993
• Citation: IR SI 57/1993

S.I. No. 57 of 1993.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (LEGAL AID) (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2) REGULATIONS, 1993.

I, MÁIRE GEOGHEGAN-QUINN, Minister for Justice, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 10 of the Criminal Justice (Legal Aid) Act, 1962 (No. 12 of 1962), and in so far as these Regulations are in relation to rates or scales of payment of fees, costs or expenses payable out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas pursuant to certificates for free legal aid, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, hereby make the following Regulations: 1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Criminal Justice (Legal Aid) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1993.

(2) The collective citation "the Criminal Justice (Legal Aid) Regulations, 1965 to 1993" shall include these Regulations. 2. These Regulations (other than Regulation 6) shall have effect from the 1st day of June, 1992. Regulation 6 shall come into operation on the day these Regulations are made. 3. In these Regulations "the Act" means the Criminal Justice (Legal Aid) Act, 1962 , "the Principal Regulations" means the Criminal Justice (Legal Aid) Regulations, 1965 ( S.I. No. 12 of 1965 ). 4. The fees payable under the Act of a solicitor assigned in relation to a case in pursuance of a certificate for free legal aid for cases in the District Court and appeals to the Circuit Court, for bail applications to the Circuit Court or Special Criminal Court which are contested by the prosecution and for essential visits to prisons and other custodial centres (other than Garda stations), shall be those set out in the First Schedule to these Regulations. 5. The fees payable under the Act of counsel assigned in relation to a case in pursuance of a certificate for free legal aid for bail applications to the Circuit Court or the Special Criminal Court which are contested by the prosecution and for essential visits to prisons and other custodial centres (other than Garda stations), shall be those set out in the Second Schedule to these Regulations. 6. The Principal Regulations are hereby amended by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (3) of Regulation 4:

"(3) ( a ) A solicitor who is willing to act for persons to whom certificates for free legal aid are granted and who wishes to have his name included in a list or lists kept pursuant to this Regulation and a solicitor who wishes to have his name deleted from such list or lists shall notify in writing the appropriate county registrar or county registrars and, upon making the amendment referred to in paragraph (2) of this Regulation in the list kept by him, the county registrar, or each county registrar, concerned shall notify the solicitor of the amendment.

( b ) Unless the Minister directs otherwise, where a notification, made in accordance with subparagraph (a) of paragraph 2 of this Regulation, is received from a solicitor wishing to have his name deleted from such list or lists the deletion shall take effect from a date not earlier than four months from the date on which the notification is received by the county registrar." 7. Regulations entered in column (1) of the Third Schedule...