South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts29—Provision of legal assistance by Commission practitioners
(1) For the purposes
of managing the provision of legal assistance to an assisted person by a
Commission practitioner, the Commission—
(a) will
be taken to be the legal practitioner retained by the person to act on the
person's behalf; and
(b) may
require a Commission practitioner to provide legal assistance to the person;
and
(c) must
supervise the provision of legal assistance to the person by the Commission
practitioner.
(2) The Director is
responsible for ensuring the provision of legal assistance to assisted persons
by Commission practitioners is properly allocated and supervised.
(3) If, in any
proceedings—
(a) a
document is required or permitted to be signed by the solicitor for an
assisted person; and
(b) the
document is signed by a Commission practitioner authorised for the purposes of
paragraph (a) by the Commission,
the document will be taken to have been signed by the assisted person's
solicitor.
(4) Despite
subsection (1), for the purposes of Part 3 of the Legal Practitioners
Act 1981 , the legal practitioner for an assisted person is
the Commission practitioner required by the Commission to provide
legal assistance to the person.