Paragraph 5

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

sch. 2 amended by Advice and Assistance 1988
Sch.2, para 8(a)(ii) amended by Advice and Assistance 1994 reg.4
sch. 2 amended by Advice and Assistance 1988
sch. 2 amended by Advice and Assistance 1989
Sch., para.8(a)(ii) rev. in pt. by Advice and Assistance 1995 reg.4
sch. 2 amended by Advice and Assistance 1990
Sch.2, para 8(b)(i)(ii) substituted by Advice and Assistance 1993 reg.2

If it appears to the solicitor that the person concerned has, with intent to reduce his disposable capital or disposable income or maximum contribution, 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.