# The Advice and Assistance (Scotland) (Consolidation and Amendment) Regulations 1996, Paragraph 4


If it appears to the solicitor that the person concerned has, with intent to reduce his disposable capital or disposable income or maximum contribution, whether for the purpose of making himself eligible for advice and assistance, reducing his liability to pay a contribution towards advice and assistance or otherwise, directly or indirectly deprived himself of any resource or has converted any part of his resources into resources which are to be left out of account wholly or partly, the resources of which he has so deprived himself or which he has so converted shall be treated as part of his resources or as not so converted, as the case may be.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2447/schedule/2/paragraph/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/advice-and-assistance-scotland-consolidation-and-amendment-regulations-1996/schedule-2/paragraph-4
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