Poor Persons Legal Assistance Act Amendment Act 1931 (WA)

1931.] Poor Persons Legal. Assistance. [No. 28.

POOR PERSONS LEGAL ASSISTANCE.

22° GEO. V., No. XXVIII.

No. 28 of 1931.

AN ACT to amend subsection three of section seven, and section thirteen of the Poor Persons Legal Assist- ance Act, 1928.

[Assented to 3rd November, 1931.1

B E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, byand with the advice and consent of the Legislative

Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in

this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of

the same, as follows:—

1.    This Act may be cited as the Poor Persons Legal short title.

Assistance Act Amendment Act, 1931, and shall be read as one with the Poor Persons Legal Assistance Act, 1928, here- inafter called "the principal Act."

2.    Subsection three of section seven of the principal Act Amendment of s.s.

is hereby repealed, and the following subsection is substi- cipalo Act. 7 of prin	(3)	Act
tilted therefor :—

(3.) The public solicitor or practitioner, or, if they are unable or unwilling to act, another practitioner ap- proved by the Minister, shall act for and conduct the ease of the applicant until the same is finally disposed of.

3.    Section thirteen of the principal Act is amended by trendment of a.

excising the words "and any costs which an unsuccessful poor person receiving legal assistance under this Act is liable to pay the opposite party" in the eighth, ninth, and tenth lines of that section.

4. The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited citation of prin. clan/ Act as amend-

as the Poor Persons Legal Assistance Act, 1928-1931. ed.