New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LEGAL AID COMMISSION ACT 1979 - SECT 11

11 Provision of legal aid

(1) Legal aid may be provided by the Commission by such means as it may determine, including any one or more of the following means:

(a) by arranging for the services of private legal practitioners to be made available, wholly or partly at the expense of the Commission,

(b) by making available the services of the Chief Executive Officer or members of staff of the Commission, or

(c) by arranging for the services of the Public Defenders to be made available.

(2) Nothing in this Act prevents the Commission from providing, to a patient within the meaning of the Mental Health Act 2007 , aid in respect of any matter, whether of a legal nature or not, by arranging for the services of persons approved by the Commission, whether or not those persons are private legal practitioners.

(3) Except as provided by subsection (2), this Act applies to and in respect of the provision of legal aid by a person approved by the Commission under that subsection in the same manner as it applies to and in respect of the provision of legal aid by a private legal practitioner.