“Director” means the Director of Legal Aid appointed under the provisions of section 3 and any Deputy Director and Assistant Director of Legal Aid so appointed;
“guardian”, in relation to an infant, includes, without prejudice to the generality of the expression, such person as the Director considers might properly be appointed by the court to be the next friend or guardian ad litem of the infant;
“judge” means a judge of the Supreme Court or the District Court, as the case may be;
“legal aid” means legal aid granted under the provisions of this Ordinance;
“legal aid certificate” means a legal aid certificate granted under section 10;
“order for costs” includes any judgment, order, decree, award or direction for the payment of the costs of one party in the proceedings by another party, whether given or made in those proceedings or not;
“panel” means the appropriate panel maintained in accordance with section 4;
“person” does not include a body of persons corporate or unincorporate so as to authorize legal aid to be granted to such a body;
“solicitor” means a person enrolled on the roll of solicitors maintained in accordance with the provisions of the (16 of 1964).Legal Practitioners Ordinance 1964, and who, at the material time, is not suspended from practice.
Appointments. 3. (1) The Governor may appoint a person to be the Director of Legal Aid and may also appoint such number of Deputy Directors of Legal Aid and Assistant Directors of Legal Aid as he may think fit.
(2) No person shall be appointed to be, or shall act temporarily as, the Director of Legal Aid or a Deputy Director of Legal Aid or an Assistant Director of Legal Aid unless he is legally qualified.
(3) Notwithstanding any provision of any other law, the Director of Legal Aid and every Deputy Director of Legal Aid and every Assistant Director of Legal Aid shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance and when acting for any aided person, have the right to plead and a right of audience in all courts in the Colony.
