New Zealand Legislation: Acts

88 Allocation of funding between community law centres

• (1) If, in any year, there is a greater demand from community law centres for funding than there is money available, the Agency's funding contracts under section 87 must be made on the basis of obtaining, for the amount of money available, the maximum access to community legal services by communities with insufficient means to pay for them.

  (2) When considering the amount of money to be provided under a contract with a community law centre, the Agency must have regard to—

  • (a) the level of unmet legal need in the community served by the community law centre, relative to that of other communities; and

  • (b) the capacity of the community to pay for legal services, relative to the capacity for other communities to pay for them; and

  • (c) the effectiveness, or likely effectiveness, of the community law centre in providing those services to the community; and

  • (d) the benefit of ensuring continuity in the delivery of services; and

  • (e) the need to provide reasonable access by communities to community law centres throughout the country; and

  • (f) alternative providers of legal services that are (or will be) available in practice to the community.

  (3) Before determining the amount of funding to be available to each community law centre, the Agency must receive and consider the advice of the Public Advisory Committee on the matter.