Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996
These Regulations amend the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981 so as to provide that—a person in receipt of income-based jobseeker’s allowance, when applying for advice and assistance, must provide information to show that he is in receipt of that benefit;a solicitor need not determine the disposable income of a person in receipt of income-based jobseeker’s allowance who applies for advice and assistance;any back to work bonus treated as payable by way of a jobseeker’s allowance is excluded from the computation of income or capital.