Section 55 - Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2014 - Discretionary payments from Fund for other purposes

55Discretionary payments from Fund for other purposes

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55 Discretionary payments from Fund for other purposes

(1) The Trustees may from time to time, with the concurrence of the Attorney General, determine that an amount is to be paid from the Public Purpose Fund for any of the following purposes—

(a) the supplementation of any of the following funds—

(i) the Legal Aid Fund,

(ii) the Fidelity Fund,

(iii) the Law and Justice Foundation Fund,

(b) the promotion and furtherance of legal education in New South Wales,

(c) the advancement, improvement and extension of the legal education of members of the community,

(d) the conduct of research into the law, the legal system, law reform and the legal profession and into their impact on the community,

(e) the furtherance of law reform,

(f) the establishment and improvement of law libraries and the expansion of the community’s access to legal information,

(g) the collection, assessment and dissemination of information relating to legal education, the law, the legal system, law reform, the legal profession and legal services,

(h) the encouragement, sponsorship or support of projects aimed at facilitating access to legal information and legal services,

(i) the improvement of the access of economically or socially disadvantaged people to the legal system, legal information or legal services.

(1A) The Trustees may from time to time, with the concurrence of the Attorney General, determine that an amount is to be paid from income earned from the investment of the community legal services account established in the Public Purpose Fund for the purposes of the community legal services program managed by the Legal Aid Commission.

(1B) Subsection (1A) does not limit the payment of any other money from the Public Purpose Fund under any other provision of this section.

(2) The Trustees are to invite applications for payments from the Fund for the purposes referred to in this section at such intervals as the Secretary directs.