Section 6
Constitution, Functions, Duties And Powers Of Central Legal Aid Committee

6. Constitution, functions, duties and powers of central Legal Aid Committee:
(1) A Central Legal Aid Committee shall be constituted for making necessary  arrangements to provide legal aid to the indigent person and the committee shall
comprised of the following members:
(a) Law and Justice Minister – Chairman
(b) Chairperson, Nepal Bar Council – Member
(c) President, Nepal Bar Association – Member
(d) One Legal expert nominated from Central Committee – Member
(e) Secretary Nepal Bar Association – Member Secretary
(2) The tenure of member nominated pursuant to Sub-section (1) of Clause
(d) shall be of three years.
(3) Functions, duties and powers of Central Committee shall be as follows:
(a) To determine Programme and policy of Legal Aid,
(b) To supervise and control the performance of District Committees and provide necessary directives to such committees,
(c) To provide grant to District Committee for Legal Aid,
(d) To make necessary arrangement of funding for Legal Aid,
(e) To make a panel of lawyers to represent at Supreme Court on behalf  of indigent person for providing Legal Aid,
(f) To make arrangement to publish and distribute introductory booklets, pamplet, hand outs relating to law and Legal Aid to aware
general public and make or cause to make arrangement for research for the same,
(g) To constitute different committees as required and specify functions, duties and powers of the committees for the purpose of Legal Aid,
** (h)
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(i) To appoint required staffs for Central Committee.
(j) To delegate some authority out of the powers entrusted to the committee to any such committee or any staff of central committee
constituted under this Act.
(k) To conduct other functions as prescribed to fulfill the objectives of this Act.
(4) The procedure relating to the meeting of the Central Committee shall be as prescribed.