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Regulation 31 Right to recover amounts paid from the Fund and effect of ceasing to make legal aid available

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Where the Board ceases to make legal aid available to an assisted person by virtue of regulation 18(2)(c) above, regulation 29(a) above, or regulation 30(a)(iii), (iv) or (v) above–

(a)

the Board shall have the right to recover from that person the amount paid out of the Fund in respect of the fees and outlays of his solicitor and counsel less any amount received from him by way of contribution;

(b)

the assisted person shall be deemed, for purposes of sections 18 and 19 of the Act, never to have been an assisted person.