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208 What is a complying community legal centre?
(1) For this Act, an entity is a complying community legal centre if—
(a) it is held out, or holds itself out, as being a community legal
centre (however described); and
(b) it provides legal services—
(i) that are directed generally to people or entities that lack the
financial means to obtain privately funded legal services or
whose cases are expected to raise issues of public interest
or are of general concern to disadvantaged groups in the
community; and
(ii) that are made available to people or entities that have a
special need arising from their location or the nature of the
legal matter to be addressed or have a significant physical
or social disability; and
(iii) that are not intended, or likely, to be provided at a profit to
the entity and the income (if any) from which cannot or
will not be distributed to any member or employee of the
entity otherwise than by way of reasonable remuneration
under a contract of service or for services; and
(iv) that are funded or expected to be funded to a significant
level by donations or by grants from government,
charitable entities or other entities; and
(c) at least 1 of the people employed or otherwise used by the entity
and who is generally responsible for provision of the legal
services by the entity is an Australian legal practitioner who—
(i) holds an unrestricted practising certificate; or
(ii) is authorised by the law society council for this section.
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