Singapore legislation
Section 9
Section 9
Application for legal aid
(1)
Any person who whether in his own right or in a representative capacity desires to be granted legal aid under this Part shall make application in that behalf to the Director; and every such application shall be in the prescribed form and accompanied by a statutory declaration verifying the facts stated in the application.
(2)
Where the person who desires to be granted legal aid under this Act is an infant the application under this section shall be made on behalf of the infant by his guardian.
(3)
Where any application is made on behalf of an infant under subsection (2) then —
a reference in section 10 or in section 11(2)(a) or section 12(1)(a) to the applicant shall be construed as a reference to the guardian and the infant jointly or to either of them severally; and
a reference in section 11(2)(b) or section 12(1)(b) as modified by section 13(2) to the applicant shall, in any case where the infant is unmarried and the guardian is a near relative (as defined in subsection (4)) of the infant, be construed as a reference to both the guardian and the infant and in every other case shall be construed as a reference to the infant only.
(4)
In subsection (3) “near relative” means —
in the case of a legitimate child, the father or, if the father is dead, the mother;
in the case of an adopted child, an adopting parent;
in the case of an illegitimate child, the mother.