Regulation 42 Payment to solicitor who acts before award of legal aid made

Any solicitor who has acted on behalf of the assisted person in the proceedings for which legal aid is made available before the date on which the application for legal aid was granted, and any solicitor who has by law a right of retention in respect of any documents necessary for the proceedings, and who has delivered them up subject to this, may give notice of the fact to the Board.

Where, after paying the net liability of the Fund on account of the assisted person out of any property recovered or preserved for him, there are any surplus monies or corporeal movables remaining in the possession of the Board in terms of regulation 40(4)(e) above, the Board shall pay and make over any such surplus monies or corporeal movables to any such solicitor who has notified the Board as mentioned in paragraph (1) above.