26 Certain legal aid provided without charge (1) Legal aid provided under this Act by way of— (a) duty lawyer services; or (b) legal advice— shall, subject to subsection (2), be provided without charge. S. 26(2) amended by Nos 48/1995 s. 10(n), 18/2005 s. 18(Sch. 1 item 57.9 (a)(b)). (2) Where legal advice is being provided to a person under this Act and it appears to an officer of VLA or a private legal practitioner that the legal advice required by the person is likely to be of a substantial or continuing nature, the officer or private legal practitioner may require the person to make an application for legal assistance in accordance with section 23, and where such a requirement is made subsections (1) and (4) of that section and sections 24, 27 and 33 shall apply to the application.

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