LEGAL AID COMMISSION ACT 1976 - SECT 36

LEGAL AID COMMISSION ACT 1976 - SECT 36

36 .         Application for legal aid

        (1)         An application for legal aid in respect of a matter shall be in writing in the form approved by the Commission for use in relation to such a matter and may be lodged at any office of the Commission.

        (2)         Subject to subsection (4), an application for legal aid shall, in accordance with the directions of the Commission under subsection (3), be decided by a legal aid committee, by the Director or by a member of the staff authorised by the Director to decide applications for legal aid.

        (3)         The Commission shall give directions as to —

            (a)         the classes of cases in which applications for legal aid shall be decided by a legal aid committee; and

            (b)         the classes of cases in which such applications shall be decided by the Director or by a member of the staff authorised by the Director under subsection (2).

        (4)         The Commission may, notwithstanding anything in this section, at any time itself refuse any application for legal aid.

        [Section 36 inserted: No. 60 of 1977 s. 17; amended: No. 126 of 1982 s. 8; No. 90 of 1986 s. 11.]