Regulation 4 Deprivation of resourcesI1

England and Wales

If it appears to the Director that an individual or that individual’s partner has, with intent to reduce the amount of the individual’s financial resources, whether for the purpose of making the individual eligible to receive criminal legal aid or otherwise—

(a)

directly or indirectly deprived themselves of any financial resources;

(b)

transferred any financial resources to another person; or

(c)

converted any financial resources into resources which under these Regulations are to be wholly or partly disregarded,

the Director must treat such financial resources as part of the individual’s resources, or as not so converted as the case may be.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Reg. 4 in force at 1.4.2013, see reg. 1