The Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 1996
These Regulations amend the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) Regulations 1989 so that any back to work bonus treated as payable by way of a jobseeker’s allowance, and any earnings top-up, are excluded from the computations of disposable income and disposable capital. Regulation 41A(2), which provides for a defence of due care or diligence for mis-statements or omissions in connection with legal aid applications, is amended to refer to paragraph (1)(a) instead of paragraph (1).