The lack of an on-call phone service had drawn criticism from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, which had the legal services stripped from them in 2015 and transferred to the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service.

The TAC had also been critical of being excluded from the process returning the service to Tasmania from July, to be operated under a board comprising members from organisations under the Tasmanian Regional Aboriginal Communities Alliance.

The new service is known as the Tasmanian Aboriginal Legal Service, utilising the same solicitors based in Launceston and Hobart under the previous service.

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Board member John Clark - of the Flinders Island Aboriginal Association - said it was untrue to state that the organisations had no experience in delivering these services, and he believed it would enable a stronger level of local legal representation for Aboriginal Tasmanians.

"The things we put in place and were adopted by VALS were really positive. So if someone goes to court on Flinders Island or anywhere else, the lawyer comes here, and they've got that support from members of their own community so it makes sense," Mr Clark said.

"There's a 24/7 1800 number as well.

"We have experience in dealing with government and government departments."

Last week, Prime Minister Scott Morrison released details of 16 targets in an overhauled Closing the Gap plan, including attempts to address rates of Aboriginal imprisonment.

In Tasmania, over a quarter of people in prison identify as Aboriginal, while one-in-four youths who enter custody in Tasmania are Aboriginal, according to data released by the Justice Department to The Examiner in June.

Mr Clark said the Aboriginal organisations were already seeking to address this through their work in local communities.

"Aboriginal organisations and individual communities that live around the state are doing that all the time. They're involved at grassroots levels," he said.

In 2015, Attorney-General George Brandis announced that Aboriginal legal services would be taken away from the TAC and transferred to VALS in Melbourne, which established the Tasmanian Aboriginal Community Legal Service.

After five years, a new funding arrangement was set up with the Commonwealth to allow the service to be fully Tasmania-based again.

The number for the legal service is 1800 595 162.