Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Legal Aid Act 1978 - SECT 26

Certain legal aid provided without charge

26. Certain legal aid provided without charge



(1) Legal aid provided under this Act by way of-

   (a)  duty lawyer services; or

   (b)  legal advice-

shall, subject to subsection (2), be provided without charge.

(2) Where legal advice is being provided to a person under this Act and it
appears to an officer of VLA or a private legal practitioner that the legal
advice required by the person is likely to be of a substantial or continuing
nature, the officer or private legal practitioner may require the person to
make an application for legal assistance in accordance with section 23, and
where such a requirement is made subsections (1) and (4) of that section and
sections 24, 27 and 33 shall apply to the application.