LEGAL AID QUEENSLAND ACT 1997 - SECT 45 General powers

LEGAL AID QUEENSLAND ACT 1997 - SECT 45

45 General powers

(1) Legal Aid may—

(a) acquire, hold or dispose of real and personal property; and

(b) accept an amount or other property on trust, and act as trustee of the amount or other property; and

(c) do anything else that a body corporate may lawfully do, including establishing a superannuation scheme for its employees.

(2) Despite anything in this Act, an amount or other property held by Legal Aid on trust must be dealt with by Legal Aid as trustee under the Trusts Act 1973 .

(3) A provision of the Legal Profession Act 2007 about law practices keeping accounts for amounts held by them on trust, or the audit of the accounts, does not apply to an amount held by Legal Aid on trust under this Act.

(4) Legal Aid may invest an amount held by it on trust under the Statutory Bodies Financial Arrangements Act 1982 and an amount resulting from the investment must be applied for this Act.