A-14 - Act respecting legal aid and the provision of certain other legal services

Section 83.6 Disposition versions

2010-09-07

83.6. The director general must entrust the provision of legal services to an advocate not in the employ of a regional centre if a person to whom section 61.1 or 83.1 applies chooses that particular advocate and the advocate agrees to provide professional services to that person for the fee determined by the Commission under the first paragraph of section 83.12.

Failing that, the director general must make available the professional services of an advocate in the employ of the regional centre.

This section does not apply if a court order has been made under section 486.3 of the Criminal Code (R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46).

2010, c. 12, s. 30.