Persons eligible for legal aid and legal advice

No person shall be eligible for legal aid and legal advice under this Act, unless- (a) he is a landless agricultural labourer, a rural artisan, a member of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, a member of backward classes, Women or a Child; or (b) he satisfies the following means test, that is to say.- (i) the family of which he is a member has income of Rs. 1,000 or less per month; or (ii) the family of which he is a member holds two hectares of irrigated land or four hectares of unirrigated land, or land less than that and such family has no other source of income except agriculture on such land. Provided that the Board or the Committee, as the case may be, may in suitable cases exempt any person from the provisions of this section.