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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2006 - SECT 227

Complying community legal centre

A body corporate is a complying community legal centre if:

        (a)     it is funded or expected to be funded to a significant level by donations or grants from government, charitable or other organisations; and

        (b)     it holds itself out as providing legal services mentioned in paragraph (c), whether or not they are the only services it provides; and

        (c)     it provides legal services, other than for deriving a profit:

            (i)     to persons or organisations lacking the financial means to obtain privately funded legal services; or

            (ii)     to persons or organisations in relation to a legal matter that is expected to raise issues of public interest or to be of general concern to disadvantaged groups in the community; or

            (iii)     to persons or organisations having a special need because of their location or the nature of the legal matter; or

            (iv)     to persons having a significant physical or social disability; and

        (d)     it employs, or under an approval given under section 229, temporarily engages, a qualified legal practitioner who is responsible for the provision of the legal services (the supervising legal practitioner ); and

        (e)     it has given the Society the information and fee prescribed by the regulations.



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