Legal Aid Amendment Act 1983
Legal Aid Amendment Act 1983
Legal Aid Amendment Act 1983
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Legal Aid Amendment Act 1983
Public Act |
1983 No 79 |
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Date of assent |
12 December 1983 |
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An Act to amend the Legal Aid Act 1969
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short Title
This Act may be cited as the Legal Aid Amendment Act 1983, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Legal Aid Act 1969 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Remuneration of persons giving legal aid
(1)
Section 32 of the principal Act (as substituted by section 8(1) of the Legal Aid Amendment Act 1980) is hereby amended by inserting in subsection (3), before the words “The Registrar of the High Court”
, the words “Subject to subsection (3a) of this section,”
.
(2)
Section 32 of the principal Act (as so substituted) is hereby further amended by inserting, after subsection (3), the following subsection:
“(3a)
The Registrar of the High Court who is a member of the District Committee to which the application was made may, instead of requiring the amounts allowed under subsection (1) of this section to be taxed in accordance with subsection (3) of this section, require those amounts to be revised under Part VIII of the Law Practitioners Act 1982, in which case the foregoing provisions of this section shall be read as if the said amounts were the amounts allowed by the Council of the District Law Society on revision or by a Registrar on any appeal from that Council’s decision or by the High Court on any review of the Registrar’s decision, as the case may be.”
(3)
Section 193(2) of the Law Practitioners Act 1982 is hereby repealed.
This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.
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