Western Australia
Legal Aid Commission Amendment Act 2006
CONTENTS
1. Short title 2
2. Commencement 2
3. The Act amended 2
4. Section 37 amended 2
Western Australia
Legal Aid Commission Amendment Act 2006
No. 27 of 2006
An Act to amend the Legal Aid Commission Act 1976.
[Assented to 26 June 2006]
The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:
1. Short title
This is the Legal Aid Commission Amendment Act 2006.
2. Commencement
This Act comes into operation on the day on which it receives the 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.]
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 —
“
(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 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 the Director.
(4g) The annual report submitted by the accountable authority of the Commission under the Financial
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
(b) the amount of monies paid out of the Fund as a result of those authorisations.
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