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Part 2Legal aid
After legal aid is granted

25Commissioner to be notified of change in circumstances

  1. An aided person (and any person acting for an aided person as a lawyer, next friend, guardian ad litem, or in any other capacity) must notify the Commissioner of the following:

  2. any increase in the income or disposable capital of (or being treated as being of) the aided person by an amount that could affect the aided person's eligibility for legal aid:
    1. any change to the address of the aided person (and the person acting for the aided person, if applicable).

      1. A person applying for legal aid (in this section, the applicant) must notify the Commissioner of the following:

      2. any increase in the income or disposable capital of (or being treated as being of) the applicant by an amount that could affect the applicant's eligibility for legal aid:
        1. any change to the applicant's address.

          1. A person who is no longer an aided person, but who becomes aware that he or she, while an aided person, received an increase in his or her income or disposable capital that could have affected his or her eligibility for legal aid, must notify the Commissioner of that fact as soon as practicable.

          2. For the purposes of subsection (1), an aided person is deemed to have waived any legal professional privilege that might otherwise prevent a person acting for the aided person from complying with subsection (1).

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