New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LEGAL AID COMMISSION ACT 1979 - SECT 38A

38A Notification of changes

(1) Where:

(a) a legally assisted person or a private legal practitioner representing a legally assisted person becomes aware of a change in the means or circumstances of the legally assisted person or in any other matter relating to the grant of legal aid to the legally assisted person, and

(b) the change is of such a nature that the legally assisted person or private legal practitioner, as the case may be, ought reasonably to suspect that the Commission might terminate the provision of legal aid or alter the nature or extent of the legal aid,

the legally assisted person or private legal practitioner, as the case may be, shall forthwith notify the Commission in writing of the change.

(2) Subsection (1) has effect notwithstanding any privilege that may arise from the relationship between a solicitor acting in a professional capacity and the solicitor’s own client.