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91 PDFTitle:LEGAL AID ORDINANCEGazette Number:E.R. 1 of 2013
Section:5Heading:Persons eligible for legal aidVersion Date:25/04/2013

(1) Legal aid to which this section applies shall, subject to and in accordance with this Ordinance, be available for any person whose financial resources do not exceed $260000, for the civil proceedings mentioned in Part 1 of Schedule 2, except proceedings mentioned in Part 2 of that Schedule. (Replaced 54 of 1984 s. 4. Amended L.N. 5 of 1986; 27 of 1991 s. 4; 43 of 1995 s. 3; 8 of 1997 s. 2; L.N. 45 of 2004; L.N. 97 of 2006; L.N. 77 of 2007; L.N. 236 of 2007; L.N. 116 of 2009; L.N. 51 of 2011)
(2) Nothing in this Ordinance shall authorize the grant of legal aid to a person to whom a chose in action is assigned for any purpose connected with that chose in action by a body of persons corporate or unincorporate. (Added 40 of 1989 s. 2)

(Amended E.R. 1 of 2013)