Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Legal Aid Act 1978 - SECT 23

PART V PROVISION OF LEGAL ASSISTANCE

Applications for legal assistance

23. Applications for legal assistance



(1) An application for legal assistance, other than legal assistance of a
class prescribed as exempted from the provisions of this subsection, shall be
in writing in or to the like effect of the form approved by VLA.

(2) An application for legal assistance may be lodged at or posted to-

   (a)  any office of VLA; or





   (b)  a venue of the Magistrates' Court.





(3) An application lodged at or posted to a venue of the Magistrates' Court
must be forwarded immediately to VLA or as VLA may from time to time direct.



(4) VLA may, in special circumstances, treat an application that does not
comply with all the requirements of subsection (1) as having been duly made.

(5) An applicant for legal assistance shall furnish to VLA such information
and such declarations and other documents as VLA requires for the purpose of
enabling a decision to be made as to whether legal assistance should be
granted in respect of the application.