LEGAL AID COMMISSION ACT 1979 - SECT 45
Recovery of money
LEGAL AID COMMISSION ACT 1979 - SECT 45
Recovery of money
45 Recovery of money
(1) Where--
(a) a court or tribunal has made an order directing the payment of
money (whether or not being or including an order as to costs) in favour of a
legally assisted person, or
(b) money is otherwise recoverable by a
legally assisted person (whether or not in a proceeding or by virtue of a
settlement or compromise),
and the person fails, within such time as the
Commission thinks reasonable, to recover the money, the Commission may, by
notice in writing, direct the person to assign his or her right to recover the
money, or such part of it as is specified in the notice, to the Commission
within a period of 21 days after the date of the notice.
(2) Where a
legally assisted person fails to comply with a notice given to him or her
under subsection (1), the person shall be deemed, at the expiration of the
period referred to in subsection (1), to have assigned to the Commission the
right to recover the money in respect of which the notice is given and the
Commission may do and suffer all such things as the person could, but for this
subsection, have been able to do or suffer in order to recover that money.