Hong Kong Ordinances

LEGAL AID ORDINANCE - SECT 14

Filing of legal aid certificate

Caution: This is a past version. See the current version here.

(1) The Director shall file the legal aid certificate in the registry of the
court-

   (a)  in which proceedings for which legal aid has been granted have been
        commenced, as soon as practicable after the issue of the certificate;
        and

   (b)  in any other case, upon the commencement of such proceedings in that
        court, and no court fee shall be charged upon the filing of such
        certificate. (Replaced 54 of 1984 s. 11)

(2) Where counsel or solicitor is assigned to act after a legal aid 
certificate is filed in court, or in any case where a new assignment is made
in lieu of counsel or solicitor assigned previously, the Director shall not be
required to endorse on the certificate the name of the counsel or solicitor so
assigned, or newly assigned, as the case may be, but may, instead, give notice
of such assignment or new assignment in writing to the proper officer of the
court in which proceedings are pending. (Amended 54 of 1984 s. 11)

(3)-(4) (Repealed 54 of 1984 s. 11)