(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) "Act" means the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 (39 of 1987);
l[(b) "District ADR Centre" means the District Alternative Dispute Resolution Centre established under the 13th Finance Commission and includes any other similar facilities like Nyaya Seva Sadans at the district level where facilities for Counselling, Mediation, Lok Adalat and Legal Services are provided under a single roof;]
x[(c) "legal services clinic" means the facility established by the District Legal Services Authority to provide basic legal services to the people with the assistance of para-legal volunteers or lawyers, as the point of first contact for help and advice and includes legal services clinics set up under regulation 3 and regulation 24;]
(d) "legal services institution" means a State Legal Services Authority, District Legal Services Authority or the Taluk Legal Services Committee, as the case may be;
(e) "panel lawyer" means the panel lawyer selected under regulation 8 of the National Legal Services Authority (Free and Competent Legal Services) Regulations, 2010;
(/) "para-legal volunteer" means a para-legal volunteer trained as such by a legal services institution;
(g) "retainer lawyer" means a retainer lawyer selected under regulation 8 of the National Legal Services Authority (Free and Competent Legal Services) Regulations, 2010;
(h) "section" means the section of the Act.
(2) All other words and expressions used in these regulations but not defined shall have the same meanings as assigned to them in the Act.
1 [3. Establishment of legal services clinic.—Subject to the financial resources available, the District Legal Services Authority shall establish legal services clinics in,— * VideNoti. No. L/08/11 NALSA, dated 10-8-2011, published in the Gazette of India, Ext.
Pt. ffl, S. 4, dated 18-8-2011.
1. Substituted by Noti. No. L/08/11 NALSA, dated 18-11-2014 (w.e.f. 6-12-2014).
NATIONAL LEGAL SERVICES AUTHORITY (LEGAL SERVICES CLINICS) REGULATIONS, 2011
(a) all villages, or for a cluster of villages, depending on the size of such villages, which shall be called the Village Legal Care and Support Centre; and
(b) jails, educational institutions, community centres, protection homes, Courts, juvenile justice boards and other areas, especially where the people face geographical, social and other barriers for access to the legal services institutions.]