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Legal Aid Regulations
[1988 Ed.
[Subsidiary]
(2) An application for an emergency certificate shall give such information as may be requisite to enable the Director to determine whether-
(a) the applicant is likely to fulfil the conditions under which legal aid may be granted under the Ordinance; and
(b) it is in the interests of justice that the applicant should, as a matter of urgency, be granted legal aid,
and shall furnish such additional information and documents (if any) as may be sufficient to constitute an application for a legal aid certificate under the Ordinance:
Provided that, if it appears to the Director that the applicant cannot at the time of the application reasonably furnish that information, or any part of it, the Director shall nevertheless have power to issue an emergency certificate subject to such conditions as to the furnishing of additional information as he thinks reasonable.
(3) An emergency certificate shall be in the prescribed form. (L.N. 326/84)
(4) An emergency certificate shall have the same effect in all respects as a legal aid certificate.
(5) An emergency certificate shall remain in force for a period of 6 weeks, or such longer period not exceeding 3 months as the Director may allow, and unless within that period a legal aid certificate is issued in respect of the proceedings to which the emergency certificate relates it shall at the end of that period be deemed to have been revoked:
Provided that if within that period he decides to refuse the application for a legal aid certificate in respect of proceedings to which the emergency certificate relates, the Director shall forthwith revoke the emergency certificate.
Period for which proceedings are stayed under section 15
7A. The period during which any proceedings are stayed by section 15 of the Ordinance shall be 42 days.
(L.N. 326/84)
Discharge and revocation of certificates
8. (1) A certificate may be either discharged or revoked by the Director in the circumstances specified in this regulation.
(2) The Director may discharge a certificate-
(a) at any time at the request of the person to whom it is issued;
(b) where an aided person has been required to make a contribution and any payment in respect thereof is more than 30 days in arrears;
(c) if he is satisfied that the proceedings to which the certificate relates have been disposed of;