Clause 14

by deleting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsection:“(1) Where proceedings have been commenced and any party makes an application for legal aid, the Director shall, as soon as practicable after the application is made, notify the other party or each of the other parties, and file with the court in which the proceedings are pending, a notification in a prescribed form and no fee shall be payable in respect of the filing of the notification.”;

by deleting the words “Where any memorandum is so filed, then, unless otherwise ordered by a judge of the court in which the litigation is pending, all proceedings in the litigation shall, by virtue of this section, be stayed for a period of 14 days, and during that period (unless otherwise ordered by any such judge)” in subsection (2) and substituting the words “Where any notification is so filed, then, unless otherwise ordered by the court before which the proceedings are pending, all steps in the proceedings shall, by virtue of this section, be stayed for a period of 14 days, and during that period (unless otherwise ordered by the court)”;

by deleting the word “memorandum” in paragraph (a) of the proviso to subsection (2) and substituting the word “notification”; and

by deleting the words “a judge of the court in which the litigation is pending” in subsections (2) (paragraphs (a)(iii) and (b) of the proviso) and (3) and substituting in each case the words “the court before which proceedings are pending”.