New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2004 - SECT 289

289 Payments from Fund

(1) The Trustees are to pay from the Public Purpose Fund the following:

(a) any amounts payable from the Fund for a purpose referred to in section 290 (Payment of certain costs and expenses from Fund), in accordance with the approval of the Director-General under that section,

(b) any amounts that the Trustees, with the concurrence of the Attorney General, determine should be paid from the Fund for a purpose referred to in section 292 (Discretionary payments from Fund for other purposes),

(c) any amounts required to be paid from the Fund in accordance with an order of the Tribunal under section 566 (3) (Costs),

(d) any costs or expenses incurred in collecting the interest payable to the Fund and in the management or administration of the Fund.

(2) Payments from the Public Purpose Fund may be made from the capital or income of the Fund, at the discretion of the Trustees.

(3) The fact that money is paid out of the Public Purpose Fund under this section does not preclude the recovery of that money in accordance with this Act from any person liable to pay the money. Any such money recovered must be paid to the credit of the Public Purpose Fund.