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Legal Aid Queensland Act 1997
sec.43Main functions
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sec.43 Main functions
Legal Aid’s main functions are— to ensure legal assistance is given to persons in the most effective, economic, commercial and efficient way; and to manage its resources so as to make legal assistance available at a reasonable cost to the community and on an equitable basis throughout the State; and to control and administer amounts given to it by the State or Commonwealth under a legal assistance arrangement or otherwise; and to pursue innovative ways of giving persons legal assistance to minimise the need for individual legal services in the community.
- (a) to ensure legal assistance is given to persons in the most effective, economic, commercial and efficient way; and
- (b) to manage its resources so as to make legal assistance available at a reasonable cost to the community and on an equitable basis throughout the State; and
- (c) to control and administer amounts given to it by the State or Commonwealth under a legal assistance arrangement or otherwise; and
- (d) to pursue innovative ways of giving persons legal assistance to minimise the need for individual legal services in the community.