PART XIPROPERTY AND COSTS RECOVERED FOR ASSISTED PERSONS

Money recovered to be paid to solicitor or the Board87

1

Subject to regulations 89 and 94, all moneys payable to an assisted person–

a

by virtue of any agreement or order made in connection with the action, cause or matter to which his certificate relates, whether such agreement was made before or after the proceedings were taken; or

b

being moneys payable in respect of the action, cause or matter to which his certificate relates upon the distribution of property of a person who had been adjudicated bankrupt or has entered into a deed of arrangement, or of a company in liquidation; or

c

being moneys which were paid into court by him or on his behalf in any proceedings to which his certificate relates and which have been ordered to be repaid to him; or

d

being moneys standing in court to the credit of any proceedings to which his certificate relates,

shall be paid or repaid, as the case may be, to the solicitor of the assisted person or, if he is no longer represented by a solicitor, to the Board, and only the solicitor, or, as the case may be, the Board, shall be capable of giving a good discharge for moneys so payable.

2

Where the assisted person’s solicitor has reason to believe that an attempt may be made to circumvent the provisions of paragraph (1), he shall inform the Board.