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This application form is for assistance with legal representation costs and/or disbursements arising from an entity engaging with the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements (the Royal Commission).

Apply for and register your consent to a nationally coordinated criminal history check.

Apply for legal financial assistance with the cost of defending an overseas criminal matter involving the death penalty.

Apply for assistance with legal representation costs and disbursement costs that result from engaging with the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety.

The Australian Government is funding legal financial assistance to individuals and entities to assist with meeting the costs of legal representation and disbursements associated with engaging with the Royal Commission. The application form should be completed and emailed finass@ag.gov.au with the required attachments.

To be used when procuring legal services from providers that are not on the panel. These terms are optional, and ensure agencies comply with the Commonwealth Contracting Suite.

To be used when procuring legal services from providers that are not on the panel. These terms are optional, and ensure agencies comply with the Commonwealth Contracting Suite.

If you are a participating agency and you do not have a portal user account, please complete this form to use the Legal Services Panel Portal to search for the names and rates of legal services providers and AGS, for any practice area.

A Commonwealth agency that proposes to brief a counsel who does not have an approved rate for performing Commonwealth legal work, is to use this form to seek approval for an initial rate.

Submissions responding to exposure drafts of the Native Title Legislation Amendment Bill 2018 and the Registered Native Title Bodies Corporate Legislation Amendment Regulations 2018.

Download a Word or PDF copy of a Commonwealth statutory declaration form.

This form is to be completed by applicants seeking assistance for legal and related expenses from the Commonwealth under statutory schemes and certain non-statutory schemes administered by the Attorney-General’s Department.

This form is to be completed by applicants seeking assistance for legal and related expenses from the Commonwealth under the overseas child abduction scheme.

In 2018, submissions were received in response to the discussion paper and were considered as part of the Review of financial hardship arrangements.

In February 2018, submissions were received responding to the questions raised in the Reforms to the Native Title Act 1993 options paper.

These submissions were received in response to Review of the Statutory Declarations Regulations 1993. The authors have provided their consent for their submission to be made public.

Non-corporate Commonwealth entities and former FMA agencies are obliged to report as soon as practicable about any possible or apparent breaches of the Legal Services Directions 2017.

The Department of Communications and the Arts and the Attorney-General's Department received submissions in response to the public discussion paper from 262 individuals and organisations.