New Zealand Legislation: Acts

85 Definition of community law centre for purposes of Act

• (1) For the purposes of this Act, a community law centre is a body whose primary function is, or includes, the provision of community legal services to communities with unmet legal needs, and in particular to people with insufficient means to pay for legal services.

  (2) Every community law centre must identify a particular community that it is intended primarily to serve, and the community can be defined geographically, or by reference to some common interest or characteristic, or both.

  (3) A body may, for the purposes of this Act, be a community law centre even if it performs functions in addition to those described in subsection (1).

  (4) In this Part, community includes the individuals who are part of it.

  Compare: 1991 No 71 s 155