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LEGAL AID ACT 1977 - SECT 84E

Professional privilege

    (1)     Section 13 shall not be taken to preclude an officer of the commission from complying with a requirement made of him or her under section 84D (3).

    (2)     If, in the course of an inquiry, the prescribed person or an assistant acquires information concerning the affairs of a person who has applied for legal assistance or to whom legal assistance is being or has been provided, the privileges that arise under section 13 (2) between that person and a statutory officer of the commission who practices as, or exercises any of the functions of, a solicitor for the person shall arise between that person and the prescribed person, or assistant, as the case requires.



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