Policies
15. Grants to Community Legal Centres
15.3. What policies applies to grants of legal aid to CLCs
Where legal aid is granted to a CLC listed in the Schedule, the policies which apply to applications for grants of legal aid and administering grants will apply to the grant of aid to the CLC. This includes:
- Means Test
- Merit Test
- Availability of funds test
- policies about the types of matters for which legal aid is available and the requirements that need to be met for criminal law matters, civil law matters and family law matters
- policies concerned with the administration of aid such as the contributions policy. In particular, s46 of the Act enables Legal Aid NSW to recover costs from the legally assisted person at the conclusion of the proceedings in certain circumstances.
Date Last Published: 22/12/2016