Transitional provisions, (Vol. VII, D. 44).
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(2) The Director shall maintain separate panels, containing the names of solicitors willing to act for aided persons in proceedings--
(a) in the Full Court:
(6) in the Supreme Court:
(c) in the District Court.
(3) The Director shall maintain separate panels, containing the names of
(a) counsel and solicitors willing to make a report or give an
opinion under section 9 of the Ordinance:
(b) counsel willing to consider whether or not a certificate should
be issued under section 16 of the Ordinance.
(4) Where the name of counsel or solicitor is entered in any of the panels maiorained in accordance with paragraphs (1) and (2), the presence of his name on the list shall carry with it the obligation on such counsel or solicitor also to act for an aided persop-
(a) in any appeal from the court in which he has so acted; and (b) in any proceedings before any person to whom the proceed-
ings are referred by the court in which he bas so acted.
(5) The Director shall enter on the appropriate panel any limita- tion as to the number of proceedings per annum in which counsel of solicitor is prepared to act for aided persons and shall give effect to such limitation.
(6) For the removal of doubt, it is hereby declared that where any solicitor is assigned for the purpose of any proceedings any other solicitor in the same firm may act for the aided person therein.
18. (1) Where on the commencement of the Ordinance an application for admission as a pauper under the Code of Civil Pro- cedure is pending the application shall be passed to the Director, and thereupon the applicant shall be deemed to have applied for and may be granted legal aid in proceedings other than any of the proceedings mentioned in Part II of the Schedule to the Ordinance.
(2) Where a person would, in the opinion of the Director, have been admitted as a pauper under the Code of Civil Procedure, if he had applied to be so admitted before such commencement, he may apply for and may be granted legal aid.
(3) An applicant under paragraph (1) or (2) may be granted legal aid notwithstanding that the application relates to a cause of action which arose before the commencement of the Ordinance.
(4) Where on the commencement of the Ordinance a person has been admitted as a pauper under the Code of Civil Procedure to take. defend or be a party to any of the proceedings mentioned in Part II of
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the Schedule to the Ordinance, he may continue to proceed under the Code and the Code shall continue to apply for the purposes of those proceedings.
(5) Where on the commencement of the Ordinance a person bas been admitted as a pauper under the Code of Civil Procedure to take, defend or be a party to any proceedings other than those referred to in paragraph (4)—
of (2)
(a) the Director shall be deemed to have determined his dis- posable income to be less than five hundred dollars a month and his disposable capital to be less than three thousand dollars;
(b) he shall be deemed to have been issued with a certificate issued under the provisions of these regulations, and these regulations shall, so far as is applicable, thereupon apply to that person as if he were an aided person; and
(c) his solicitor and counsel retained for the purposes of the proceedings shall be deemed to be members of the panel, acting for him in accordance with the Ordinance.
SCHEDULE.
FORM 1.
LEGAL AID ORDINANCE 1966.
(No. 36 of 1966).
Fr. 30117
APPLICATION BY PERSON APPLYING ON HIS OWN BEHALF.
APPLICATION FOR LEGAL AID.
1.
1. (
hereby apply for legal aid under the Legal Aid Ordinance 1966.
My Hong Kong Identity Card Number is
1. Legal aid under the said Ordinance is sought for the purpose of-
"(a) taking or continuing proceedings against (3)
"(b) defending or continuing to defend proceedings Instituted or to be In-
stituted by 00
"(c) being or continuing as a party to proceedings (5)
Dedah berum
(1) Name of Applian Block Levers, State Mr.. Mr. Mai, K. (2) Address, Decopalian Bod artonully.
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Paragraph.
3) Nume and
de
pening a
whom proceed- ing are to be tor
cominged.
10 Nume and address of per-
* fortal
proccediam. (5) Name of proceedings
And game and addretac
of all paru CA.