Western Australian Current Regulations Western Australian Current Regulations (1) Where it is not
reasonable in all the circumstances to brief an agent and an assigned
practitioner is required in the conduct of a legal aid
assignment —
(a) to
travel more than 5 kilometres from the place at which the assigned
practitioner practises (including branch or visiting offices maintained by the
practitioner’s firm) in order to —
(i)
visit a prison, lock‑up or police station;
(ii)
attend on a witness;
(iii)
make any necessary investigation; or
(iv)
attend a court or tribunal hearing;
or
(b) to
stay overnight in a town or place, being more than 100 kilometres from that in
which the practitioner practises,
the assigned
practitioner is entitled to travelling and subsistence allowances as
determined from time to time by the Director on the recommendation of the
Public Sector Commissioner.
(2) An allowance paid
to an assigned practitioner under subrule (1) may be treated as a
disbursement.
[Rule 14 inserted: Gazette
30 Oct 1992 p. 5335; amended: Gazette 11 Feb 2011
p. 506‑7.]