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Legal Aid Law of the People's Republic of China
(Закон Китайской Народной Республики «О юридической помощи»)
(Adopted at the 30th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Thirteenth National People's Congress on August 20, 2021)
Contents
Chapter I General Provisions
Chapter II Institutions and Workers
Chapter III Forms and Scope
Chapter IV Procedures and Implementation
Chapter V Safeguards and Supervision
Chapter VI Legal Liability
Chapter VII Supplementary Provisions
Chapter I
General Provisions
Article 1 This Law is enacted to regulate and promote legal aid work, to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of citizens and relevant parties, to guarantee the proper enforcement of the law, and to maintain social fairness and justice.
Article 2 For the purposes of this Law, «legal aid», as an integral part of the public legal service system, refers to the system established by the state to gratuitously provide legal advice, representation, criminal defense, and other legal services for citizens in financial hardship and other parties that meet statutory requirements.
Article 3 Legal aid work falls under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, and shall be carried out with the people put front and center, human rights respected and protected, the principles of openness, fairness, and impartiality adhered to, and state support and social participation combined.
Article 4 The people's governments at or above the county level shall incorporate legal aid work into national economic and social development plans and basic public service systems, and coordinate the cause of legal aid with the economic and social progress.
In order to accommodate the needs arising from the provision of legal aid and promote the balanced development of legal aid, the people's governments at or above the county level shall build sound systems to guarantee legal aid work, include funds related to legal aid in government budgets at the corresponding levels, and establish a dynamic adjustment mechanism.
Article 5 The judicial administration department of the State Council shall guide and supervise the legal aid work throughout the country. The judicial administration departments of the local people's governments at or above the county level shall guide and supervise the legal aid work in their respective administrative areas.