Act Number: 39

Act Name: The Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987

Year: 1987

Enactment Date: 1987-10-11

Long Title: An Act to constitute legal services authorities to provide free and competent legal services to the weaker sections of the society to ensure that opportunities for securing justice are not denied to any citizen by reason of economic or other disabilities, and to organise Lok Adalats to secure that the operation of the legal system promotes justice on a basis of equal opportunity.

Ministry: Ministry of Law and Justice

Department: Department of Justice

Section 14: Grants by the Central Government.
    The Central Government shall, after due appropriation made by Parliament by law in this behalf, pay to the Central Authority, by way of grants, such sums of money as the Central Government may think fit for being utilised for the purposes of this Act.
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