Right to and nature of legal advice
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(1) Subject to this Part, legal advice on any matter specified in the Second, Third and Fourth Schedules shall be available to persons resident and present in Malaysia. (2) Legal advice shall consist of oral advice on legal questions given by the Director General of Legal Aid or a solicitor whose name is on the appropriate panel of solicitors maintained pursuant to section 5 and shall include help in preparing an application for legal aid and in supplying information required in determining financial resources of the applicant but shall not include advice on any law other than the law of Malaysia. (3) Provisions may be made by regulations for further defining or restricting the questions on which legal advice may be given and for regulating all matters relating to fees, charges and costs in relation to the giving of legal advice. (4) A person seeking legal advice shall apply to the Director General of Legal Aid and shall be required— (a) to satisfy the Director General that he cannot afford to obtain it in the ordinary way; and (b) to pay to the Director General a fee of two ringgit or such other fee as may be prescribed. (5) The Minister may by order amend or vary the Fourth Schedule.