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Deputy Secretary for Education and Manpower Deputy Secretary for the Civil Service
Director of Education
Secretary-General, University Grants Committee
Director of Hong Kong Institute of Education
Executive Director, Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation
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Financial eligibility limits for legal aid scheme revised
The Legal Aid (Amendment) Ordinance 1997 will come into operation on May 1, 1997. Under the amendment Ordinance, the upper financial eligibility limit for the standard legal aid scheme will be increased from $144,000 to $169,700; and the lower and upper financial eligibility limits for the Supplementary Legal Aid Scheme from the present $144,000 and $400,000 to $169,700 and $471,600 respectively.
The Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources and Contributions)(Amendment) Regulation 1997 will also come into operation on May 1, 1997. The amendment Regulation prescribes a set of new scales of contributions to be made by legally aided persons under the standard legal aid scheme, as a result of the increase in the financial eligibility limit.
The Government is committed to reviewing the financial eligibility limits for the standard legal aid scheme and the Supplementary Legal Aid Scheme operated by the Legal Aid Department every two years to take account of inflation.
A recent review has recommended that the financial eligibility limits should be revised in line with inflation in the past two years (the accumulated inflation rate for the period from July 1994 to June 1996 was 17.9%).
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