New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LEGAL AID COMMISSION ACT 1979 - SECT 28

28 Solicitor on record

(1) Where:

(a) in any proceeding, a document is required or permitted to be signed by a solicitor for a party to a proceeding who is an applicant for legal aid or a legally assisted person, and

(b) the Chief Executive Officer or a member of staff of the Commission is taking steps to conserve the interests of the applicant pending the determination of the application or is providing legal aid to the legally assisted person in relation to the proceeding,

the signature of the Chief Executive Officer, or of a member of staff of the Commission who is a solicitor and who, pursuant to a written authority given generally or specially by the Chief Executive Officer, is authorised to sign documents on behalf of the Chief Executive Officer for the purposes of this section, shall be deemed to be the signature of the solicitor for that party.

(2) If the Chief Executive Officer does not hold a current practising certificate, a reference in subsection (1) to the Chief Executive Officer is to be read as a reference to the relevant member of staff appointed for the time being under section 23A.