37Where, in accordance with subsection 11(1) of the Act, it appears to an area director that an application may be disposed of more conveniently in another area or where the legal aid applied for can be rendered more conveniently and economically in another area, he may forward to the area director of the other area the application together with any other documentation and information available to him, in which case the area director to whom the application is forwarded shall proceed as if the application had been made to him by the applicant in the first instance.