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No. S 428

Legal Aid and Advice Act

(Chapter 160)

Legal Aid and Advice (Amendment) Regulations 2003

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 23(1) of the Legal Aid and Advice Act, the Minister for Law hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid and Advice (Amendment) Regulations 2003 and shall come into operation on 2nd September 2003.

Amendment of regulation 15

2. Regulation 15 of the Legal Aid and Advice Regulations (Rg 1) is amended by inserting, immediately after paragraph (5), the following paragraphs:

“(6) Notwithstanding paragraphs (1) to (5), where the Director, by way of a tender system or otherwise, enters into any agreement with any solicitor to engage the services of the solicitor and to assign cases to him, the agreement may provide for the payment of solicitor and client costs (including disbursements) to the solicitor at such rates as may be agreed between the Director and the solicitor.”.

[G.N. No. S 299/2002]

Made this 30th day of August 2003.

LIEW HENG SAN

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Law,
Singapore.

[LAW 23/003/001 Vol. 2; AG/LEG/SL/160/2001/1 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 23(5) of the Legal Aid and Advice Act).