Second

Session, 48th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2018

BILL 34

ACT TO AMEND THE LEGAL AID ACT

Received

and Read the First Time ................................................................

Second

Reading ............................................................................................

Committee .....................................................................................................

Third

Reading ...............................................................................................

Royal

Assent .................................................................................................

HONOURABLE ANDREW

PARSONS, Q.C.

Minister of Justice

and Public Safety and Attorney General

Ordered to be printed by

the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This

Bill would amend the Legal Aid Act to repeal the provisions which allow

an applicant for legal aid who is charged with murder, manslaughter or

infanticide to select a solicitor in private practice.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE LEGAL AID ACT

Analysis

S.31 Amdt.

Solicitor may be appointed

Transitional

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cL-11

as amended

1. Subsections 31(3.1), (3.2) and (3.3) of the Legal Aid Act are repealed.

Transitional

2. Nothing in this Act affects a certificate that

(

a) was issued by the commission to an applicant for

professional services to be rendered by a solicitor in private practice in

accordance with subsection 31(3.1) of the Legal Aid Act before the

coming into force of this Act; and

(

b) is completed and signed by the solicitor in

private practice and returned to the commission in accordance with

section 29

of the Legal Aid Regulations .

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