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LEGAL AID COMMISSION ACT 1976 - SECT 19

19 .         Functions and powers of Director

        (1)         The Director shall — 

            (a)         subject to the Commission, administer the scheme of legal assistance established by this Act;

            (b)         as and when required by or under this Act, provide legal services to assisted persons and arrange and supervise the provision of such services by legal practitioners who are members of the staff.

        (2)         The Director may do all things that are necessary or convenient to be done for or in connection with the performance of his functions.

        (3)         Subject to the Legal Profession Act 2008 the Director may have articled clerks articled to him.

        [Section 19 amended by No. 60 of 1977 s. 11; No. 65 of 2003 s. 47(4); No. 21 of 2008 s. 674(11) and (12).]



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