Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01281:clause:1ab_602
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01281
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1AB cl 602
Character Range: 1416872–1420114

602       Environmental legal services                                                                                                                         To provide funding to environmental legal assistance organisations to:
                                                                                                                                                               (a) provide legal information and legal assistance services (including legal advice and legal representation):
                                                                                                                                                               (i) to persons in relation to matters in the federal jurisdiction or in relation to Commonwealth laws; or
                                                                                                                                                               (ii) specifically targeted to assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; or
                                                                                                                                                               (iii) to persons in a Territory; or
                                                                                                                                                               (b) provide legal information and assistance services through the use of telephone and online communication services; or
                                                                                                                                                               (c) provide for online and telephone communication between environmental legal assistance organisations; or
                                                                                                                                                               (d) evaluate or improve the matters referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) above.
                                                                                                                                                               This objective has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures:
                                                                                                                                                               (a) with respect to postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(v) of the Constitution); or
                                                                                                                                                               (b) with respect to Indigenous Australians and particular groups of Indigenous Australians; or
                                                                                                                                                               (c) incidental to the execution of the legislative powers vested in the Commonwealth; or
                                                                                                                                                               (d) undertaken in, or in relation to, a Territory.