97 (1) Subject to the approval of the Lieutenant Governor in Council, the Corporation may make regulations respecting its administration of the system for providing legal aid services and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, may make regulations, (a) governing the processes for submitting and assessing applications for legal aid services; (b) governing the establishment of panels of duty counsel and prescribing the functions of duty counsel; (c) prescribing the composition and functions of area committees; (d) governing the establishment of panels of lawyers and service-providers; (e) governing student legal aid services societies, including the application process, the authority of the dean of the law school, rules respecting the participation of students in providing legal aid services and requiring reports on their activities to the Corporation; (f) governing applications for certificates by individuals who are not residents of Ontario; (g) governing the administration, cancellation, amendment and discharge of certificates; (h) governing appeals under subsections 30 (1) and (2) from a refusal to be issued a certificate or a cancellation of a certificate; (i) providing for the examination, settlement, approval and payment of accounts submitted by lawyers and service-providers; (j) governing appeals by lawyers and service-providers of their accounts; (k) prescribing other methods by which lawyers and service-providers may be paid for providing legal aid services and governing such payment methods; (l) governing applications for funding by clinics and the approval or rejection of such applications; (m) governing the reconsideration of clinic funding decisions; (n) governing the recovery of the costs of legal aid services from the individual who received them, or from a person responsible for the individual, including prescribing information to be provided by an applicant or person responsible for an applicant that is necessary to determine the applicant’s entitlement to legal aid services, prescribing circumstances to be considered in determining their ability to contribute, prescribing a method for determining their ability to contribute and for determining the amount they are required to contribute and prescribing the rate of interest, or a method for determining it, to be charged on overdue payments; (o) governing the recovery of costs of legal aid services from court awards, settlements and cost awards; (p) governing the application of section 49, including prescribing circumstances when and the manner in which the Corporation may exercise its discretion under that section; (q) prescribing oaths of office and secrecy and requiring persons, or any class thereof, to take and subscribe such oaths or either of them; (r) governing quality assurance audits to be conducted by the Law Society and governing the reports to be made by the Law Society on such audits; (s) establishing a process for investigating and resolving complaints made against lawyers and service-providers providing legal aid services; (t) governing the investigation and resolution of alleged violations of this Act; (u) prescribing forms for the purposes of this Act; (v) governing any matter necessary or advisable to carry out the purposes of this Act. Same (2) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations, (a) prescribing areas of law for which the board of directors of the Corporation shall establish an advisory committee; (b) prescribing areas of civil law, types of civil cases and types of civil proceedings (including proceedings in which the damages sought are above a specified amount) for which the Corporation may not provide legal aid services; (c) prescribing financial eligibility requirements for an individual to receive legal aid services; (d) prescribing who is a person responsible for an applicant for the purposes of Part IV; (e) prescribing the fees and disbursements to be paid to lawyers and service-providers and governing their payment; (f) prescribing the fees to be paid to duty counsel who are not employees of the Corporation and governing their payment; Note: On a day to be named by proclamation of the Lieutenant Governor, subsection 97 (2) of the Act is amended by adding the following clause: (See: 2020, c. 11, Sched. 14, s. 7 (1)) (f.1) prescribing anything that may be prescribed under section 39.1; (f.2) prescribing instruments for the purposes of subsection 72.3 (6); (g) prescribing the provisions of the Corporations Act and Corporations Information Act that apply to the Corporation; Note: On the day subsection 4 (1) of the Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, 2010 comes into force, clause 97 (2) (g) of the Act is amended by striking out “the Corporations Act” and substituting “the Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, 2010”. (See: 2017, c. 20, Sched. 8, s. 90 (2)) (h) prescribing the provisions of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997 and of regulations made under that Act that apply to the Corporation; (i) prescribing the provisions of the Financial Administration Act that apply to the Corporation; (j) prescribing the Corporation’s borrowing and investment powers; (k) governing the establishment, operation and amount of the contingency reserve fund to be maintained by the Corporation. 2020, c. 11, Sched. 14, s. 7 (2). General or particular (3) A regulation may be general or particular in its application. Classes (4) A regulation may create different classes and may establish different requirements in relation to the different classes. Retroactive (5) A regulation may be retroactive in its operation.  1998, c. 26, s. 97. Section Amendments with date in force (d/m/y) 2017, c. 20, Sched. 8, s. 90 (2) - not in force 2020, c. 11, Sched. 14, s. 7 (1) - not in force; 2020, c. 11, Sched. 14, s. 7 (2) - 08/07/2020 98-109 Omitted (amends or repeals other Acts).  1998, c. 26, ss. 98-109. 110 Omitted (provides for coming into force of provisions of this Act).  1998, c. 26, s. 110. 111 Omitted (enacts short title of this Act).  1998, c. 26, s. 111. ______________  Français