(a) A person shall not be qualified for nomination as a member of the High Court Legal Committee unless he/she is-
(i) an eminent social worker, preferably a women, who is engaged in the upliftment of the weaker sections of the people, including Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Women, Children and Rural Labour;
(ii) an eminent person in the field of law; or
(iii) a person of repute who is specially interested in the implementation of the Legal Services Schemes.
(iv) A Government pleader of the High Court.
5. The experience, qualification of the Secretary of the Committee.
(i) The Secretary of the Committee shall be appointed by the Chief Justice of the High Court. A person shall not be qualified for appointment as Secretary of the High Court Legal Services Committee unless he is an officer of the High Court not below the rank of Additional Registrar, or such other officer as the Chief Justice of the High Court considers him fit for such appointment.
(ii) The Secretary shall be paid a special allowance or such allowance as may be determined by the Administrator in consultation with the Chief Justice of the High Court, and the special allowance shall be in addition to his regular pay and allowances 89 which the Secretary draws in his regular service under his parent departmen t.
The powers and functions of the Secretary of the High Court Legal Services Committee under Sub-Section (3) of 8A of the Act:- The Powers and functions of the Secretary of the High Court Legal Services Committee shall be-
(a) to carry out the directives and decisions of the Committee;
(b) to work out the modalities of the legal services schemes and programmes in any suit, cases, appeals, applications, references in the High Court as approved by the Committee;
(c) to exercise all the powers for the day-to-day routine administration of the committee so far as relates to management of office, finance and utilisation of funds received by him from the administration;
(d) to exercise all the powers necessary for utilisation of funds and finance as Drawing and Disbursing Officer;
(e) to get the accounts prepared by the officers or employees of the committee;
(f) to prepare a budget for the annual income and expenditure as to the functioning of the committee by officers and employees of the committee;
(g) to maintain upto date and complete statistical information as to progress of the works in the matter of implementation of various legal services programmes from time to time so far as it relates to High Court with the assistance of officers and employees of committee;
(h) to arrange for dissemination of the scheme for legal services to the people in any matter relating to High Court through radio, television, newspapers and other media;
(i) to perform such other function or functions as may be expedient for efficient functioning of the committee.