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Legal Services Act 2011

Administration of legal services system - Community law centres - Community law centres

93: Definition of community law centres

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"What is a Community Law Centre?"

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You can think of a community law centre as a group that helps people with legal issues. This group's main job is to provide community legal services. You can still call it a community law centre even if it does other things too.

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Community law centres: Community law centres

93Definition of community law centres

  1. For the purposes of this Act, a community law centre is a body whose function includes the provision of community legal services.

  2. A body may, for the purposes of this Act, be a community law centre even if it performs functions in addition to those described in subsection (1).

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