{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-general-regulations-1989/regulation-90",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-general-regulations-1989/regulation-90.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/339",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-general-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/90",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "90",
  "heading": "Solicitor to pay moneys recovered to the Board",
  "text": "(1) An assisted person’s solicitor shall forthwith–\n(a) inform the Area Director of any property recovered or preserved for the assisted person and send to him a copy of the order or agreement by virtue of which the property was recovered or preserved; and\n(b) subject to paragraphs (2) and (4), pay all moneys received by him under the terms of the order or agreement made in the assisted person’s favour to the Board.\n(2) Where the Area Director considers that the rights of the fund will thereby be safeguarded, he may direct the assisted person’s solicitor to–\n(a) pay to the Board under paragraph (1)(b) only such sums as, in the opinion of the Area Director, should be retained by the Board in order to safeguard the rights of the fund under any provisions of the Act and these Regulations; and\n(b) pay any other moneys to the assisted person.\n(3) Where in proceedings under any of the enactments referred to in regulation 96(1), the property recovered or preserved for the assisted person includes–\n(a) property which by order of the court or under the terms of any agreement reached is to be used as a home for the assisted person or his dependants; or\n(b) money which by order of the court or under the terms of any agreement reached is to be used to purchase a home for the assisted person or his dependants,\nthe assisted person’s solicitor shall forthwith so inform the Area Director.\n(4) If the Area Director considers and directs that the provisions of regulation 96 apply to any sum of money, paragraph (1)(b) above shall not apply to it and the assisted person’s solicitor shall release the money only in accordance with the provisions of regulation 96.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/1822",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/2036",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1991"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/229",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) Regulations 1994"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/339/regulation/90",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:48:43.448906+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}