Legal Aid Act 1990

(1) An application for legal aid made to the Australian Legal Aid Office which has not been determined immediately before the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be an application under section 23.

(2) Where, before the commencement of this Act, the Australian Legal Aid Office was performing services on behalf of a person by way of legal aid, then, as from that commencement, the services shall, so far as is necessary, continue to be performed on behalf of the person by the Commission.

(3) A private legal practitioner who, immediately before the commencement of this Act, was acting for a person in a matter in the course of the operations of the Australian Legal Aid Office shall, in respect of that matter, be deemed to be a private legal practitioner to whom the Commission has assigned work under this Act.

(a) performed on or after the commencement of this Act by the Commission on behalf of a person under subsection (2); or

(b) carried out on or after the commencement of this Act by a private legal practitioner under subsection (3),

shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act, be performed or carried out subject to any conditions attached to, and the policies of the Australian Legal Aid Office in relation to, the performance or carrying out of the services before that commencement.

(5) For the purposes of subsection (4), the Commission shall be deemed to stand in the place of and shall have all or any of the rights, duties and obligations of the Australian Legal Aid Office in respect of the performance or carrying out of the services referred to in that subsection before the commencement of this Act.

(6) On and from the commencement of this Act, the Director shall be deemed to be the solicitor for a person in any proceeding in a court, or in any other matter, in which an officer or employee of the Australian Legal Aid Office was acting in the course of the operations of that Office as the solicitor for the person immediately before that commencement.