Hong Kong Ordinances

LEGAL AID ORDINANCE - SECT 5

Persons eligible for legal aid

(Past version on 14/12/2007).
(Past version on 15/06/2007).
(Past version on 16/06/2006).
(Past version on 12/07/2004).
(Past version on 30/06/1997).

PART II

SCOPE OF LEGAL AID

(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 $175800, for the civil proceedings mentioned
in Part I of Schedule 2, except proceedings mentioned in Part II 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)

(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)