Western Australian Consolidated Acts

LEGAL AID COMMISSION ACT 1976 - SECT 63A

63A .         Director may require practitioner to supply information

        (1)         The Director may, either of his own motion or at the request of the Commission or a legal aid committee or a review committee, require a private practitioner who is performing or has performed services under this Act on behalf of an assisted person, to furnish to the Director — 

            (a)         information as to the performance of those services; or

            (b)         information disclosed to the private practitioner by the assisted person in the course of or with respect to the performance of those services.

        (2)         Without limiting the generality of section 40(6), the failure of a private practitioner to comply with a requirement made by the Director pursuant to subsection (1) shall be a ground for the removal of his name from the panel of names prepared pursuant to that section.

        [Section 63A inserted by No. 113 of 1978 s. 11.]