No. S 235
Legal Aid and Advice Act 1995
Legal Aid and Advice
(Amendment) Regulations 2024
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 23(1) of the Legal Aid and Advice Act 1995, the Minister for Law makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1.—(1)  These Regulations are the Legal Aid and Advice (Amendment) Regulations 2024 and, except for regulation 3, come into operation on 1 April 2024.
(2)  Regulation 3 is deemed to have come into operation on 31 December 2021.
Amendment of First Schedule
2.  In the Legal Aid and Advice Regulations (Rg 1), in the First Schedule, in paragraph 1 —
(a)in sub‑paragraph (a), replace “$950” with “$1,050”; and
(b)in sub‑paragraph (c)(ii), replace “$13,000” with “$21,000”.
Miscellaneous amendments
3.  In the Legal Aid and Advice Regulations —
(a)in regulation 4(6), replace “section 6(5)” with “section 6(6)”;
(b)in regulations 8(1)(b)(iii) and 14(3)(c), replace “section 13(5)” with “section 13(6)”;
(c)in regulation 10(4)(a), replace “section 16(2)” with “section 16(3)”;
(d)in regulation 10(4)(b), replace “section 16(7)” with “section 16(6)”;
(e)in regulation 10(4)(b), replace “section 16(6)(b) and (c)” with “section 16(5)(b) and (c)”;
(f)in regulation 14(7), replace “Part X” with “Part 10”;
(g)in the following provisions, replace “(Cap. 353)” with “1961”:
Regulation 14(7)
Second Schedule, paragraph 1(d);
(h)in the First Schedule, in paragraph 2, in the definition of “annual value”, replace “(Cap. 254)” with “1960”;
(i)in the First Schedule, in paragraph 2, in the definition of “investment”, replace “(Cap. 36, Rg 9)” with “(Rg 9)”;
(j)in the First Schedule, in paragraph 2, in the definition of “owner”, in paragraph (a), replace “Part IV or IVB of the Housing and Development Act (Cap. 129)” with “Part 4 or 4B of the Housing and Development Act 1959”;
(k)in the First Schedule, in paragraph 2, in the definition of “owner”, in paragraph (b), replace “(Cap. 99A)” with “1996”;
(l)in the Second Schedule, in paragraph 1(a), replace “(Cap. 4)” with “1939”;
(m)in the Second Schedule, in paragraph 1(b), replace “(Cap. 122)” with “1934”;
(n)in the Second Schedule, in paragraph 1(c), replace “(Cap. 251)” with “1934”; and
(o)in the Second Schedule, in paragraph 2, replace “(Cap. 3)” with “1966”.
[G.N. Nos. S 299/2002; S 428/2003; S 399/2005; S 309/2007; S 612/2012; S 355/2013; S 150/2014; S 271/2016; S 400/2019; S 692/2019; S 1050/2020]
Made on 5 March 2024.
LUKE GOH
Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Law,
Singapore.
[082/002/LAAA; AG/LEGIS/SL/160/2020/2 Vol. 1]
(To be presented to Parliament under section 23(7) of the Legal Aid and Advice Act 1995).