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Legal Services Act 2011

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

96: Secretary may audit community law centres

You could also call this:

"The Secretary checks community law centres to see if they are providing good services."

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The Secretary can check the services provided by a community law centre at any time. You need to know that this check is called an audit and it must be done by an auditor. The Secretary wants to see if the services are good and valuable. The audit helps the Secretary to assess the services funded by them. It also looks at other matters relevant to community legal services funded under this Act. The Secretary or auditor decides what matters are relevant. If an audit is done, the rules about sharing secret information are explained in Section 109. This section tells you how secret information can be shared during an audit. The Secretary follows these rules when doing an audit.

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Part 3Administration of legal services system
Community law centres: Community law centres

96Secretary may audit community law centres

  1. The Secretary may, at any time, audit the services provided by a community law centre under a contract for services.

  2. The audit must be conducted by an auditor.

  3. The purpose of the audit is to enable the Secretary to assess and review—

  4. the quality and value of the services provided by the community law centre that have been, or may be, funded by the Secretary; and
    1. any other matter that the Secretary or auditor considers relevant to the provision of community legal services that have been funded or partially funded under this Act.

      1. Section 109 applies to the disclosure of privileged information for the purposes of an audit taken under this section.