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LEGAL AID COMMISSION AMENDMENT BILL 2005

                   Western Australia


 
 
egal Aid Commission Amendment Bill 2005

                      CONTENTS


 1.    Short title                      2
 2.    Commencement                     2
 3.    The Act amended                  2
 4.    Section 37 amended               2




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                           Western Australia


                     LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

                      (As amended in Committee)



  Legal Aid Commission Amendment Bill 2005


                               A Bill for


An Act to amend the Legal Aid Commission Act 1976.



The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:




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     1.              Short title
                     This is the Legal Aid Commission Amendment Act 2005.

     2.              Commencement
                     This Act comes into operation on the day on which it receives the
 5                   Royal Assent.

     3.              The Act amended
                     The amendments in this Act are to the Legal Aid Commission
                     Act 1976*.
                     [* Reprint 4 as at 20 May 2005.]

10   4.              Section 37 amended
          (1)        Section 37(2) is amended by deleting "subsection (4c)" and
                     inserting instead --
                     " subsections (4c) and (4d) ".
          (2)        After section 37(4c) the following subsections are inserted --
15              "
                    (4d)   The Attorney General may, by notice in writing,
                           authorise a legal aid authority to provide legal aid to a
                           person specified in the notice, or to a person in a class
                           of persons specified in the notice, without making a
20                         decision as to whether the person is a person referred to
                           in subsection (2)(a).
                    (4e)   The Attorney General may, by notice in writing, vary
                           or revoke an authorisation given under subsection (4d).
                    (4f)   A notice under subsection (4d) or (4e) is to be given to
25                         the Director.
                    (4g)   The annual report submitted by the accountable
                           authority of the Commission under the Financial


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    Administration and Audit Act 1985 section 66 is to
    include particulars of --
      (a) the number of notices of authorisation given to
            the Director under subsection (4f); and
5     (b) the amount of monies paid out of the Fund as a
            result of those authorisations.
                                                             ".

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