Acts and Regulations

2014, c.26 - Legal Aid Act

Section 29
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Residency requirement
29(1)A legal aid certificate shall not be issued under section 28 to a person who is not ordinarily resident in the Province.
29(2)Despite subsection (1), if, in the opinion of the Executive Director, the interests of justice demand that legal aid services be extended to a person not ordinarily resident in the Province, the Executive Director may authorize that a legal aid certificate be issued to that person in accordance with section 28.
29(3)This section does not apply in respect of the following:
(a) any proceedings or any matter preliminary to anticipated proceedings referred to in paragraph 28(2)(a); and
(b) any proceedings, or any matter preliminary to anticipated proceedings, of an appellate nature in respect of proceedings referred to in paragraph 28(2)(a).
Residency requirement
29(1)A legal aid certificate shall not be issued under section 28 to a person who is not ordinarily resident in the Province.
29(2)Despite subsection (1), if, in the opinion of the Executive Director, the interests of justice demand that legal aid services be extended to a person not ordinarily resident in the Province, the Executive Director may authorize that a legal aid certificate be issued to that person in accordance with section 28.
29(3)This section does not apply in respect of the following:
(a) any proceedings or any matter preliminary to anticipated proceedings referred to in paragraph 28(2)(a); and
(b) any proceedings, or any matter preliminary to anticipated proceedings, of an appellate nature in respect of proceedings referred to in paragraph 28(2)(a).