30. A person requiring legal services shall apply therefor personally, unless he is prevented from doing so, in which case the application for legal aid may be submitted, in his name or for his benefit, by his tutor, a mandatary fulfilling the protection mandate, a temporary representative of an incapable person of full age performing the specific act he has been authorized to perform, a relative or a friend.
If the application for legal aid is aimed at obtaining, for a third party, the institution or review of tutorship to a person of full age, the designation of a temporary representative for an incapable person of full age, the homologation or revocation of the protection mandate given by that person or the custody of that person against his will in a health or social services institution or his psychiatric examination, the person making the application for the third party is deemed to be financially eligible where such third party is himself financially eligible for legal aid.
O.C. 1073-96, s. 30; O.C. 1454-97, s. 17; I.N. 2016-01-01 (NCCP); S.Q. 2020, c. 11, s. 225.