New Zealand Legislation: Regulations
Regulations are laws made under Acts
This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.
These regulations, which come into force on 1 November 2008, amend the Legal Services Regulations 2006.
These regulations—
replace regulation 5, which sets out the maximum levels of income for the purposes of determining legal aid eligibility for civil matters:
replace Schedule 2:
revoke the Legal Services Amendment Regulations 2006, which had previously replaced Schedule 2 of the Legal Services Regulations 2006.
The effect of the first 2 amendments is that, when these regulations come into force, the eligibility and repayment thresholds for legal aid will correspond again to the thresholds for entitlement to Community Service Cards, following increases in benefit levels effective as at 1 April 2008.
