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91C PDFTitle:LEGAL AID (SCALE OF FEES) REGULATIONSGazette Number:
Regulation:6Heading:Advance of fees to counsel and solicitorVersion Date:30/06/1997

(1) The Director may before taxation make an advance to counsel or solicitor of an amount not exceeding 75% of the sum which the Director estimates will be payable under regulation 4 or 5 and such advance shall be on account of moneys so payable.
(2) If the amount paid under subregulation (1) exceeds the amount payable under regulation 4 or 5, the counsel or solicitor, shall repay the excess to the Director.

(Enacted 1989)