case may be, assessed in accordance with the provisions of these regulations;
(b) the Director shall remain liable for the payment of any costa
so taxed or assessed.
(4) Where a certificate has been revoked or discharged, any pro- vision of the Ordinance, which provides for a charge upon property recovered or preserved for an aided person shall apply to any property recovered or preserved as a result of the person whose certificate has been revoked or discharged continuing to take, defend or be a party to the proceedings to which the certificate related.
(5) Where a certificate has been revoked-
(a) the Director shall have the right to recover from the person to whom the certificate was issued the costs paid or payable under sub-paragraph (6) of paragraph (3) less any amount received from him by way of contribution; and
(b) the Director or solicitor who has acted in the proceedings shall have the right to recover from that person the difference between the amount paid or payable by the Director and the full amount of the costs of the Director and his solicitor and own client costs as taxed or agreed.
(6) Where a certificate has been discharged the person to whom the certificate was issued shall remain liable for the payment of his maximum contribution, if any, as determined by the Director up to the amount paid or payable by the Director under sub-paragraph (5) of paragraph (3), and where he continues to take, defend or be a party to the proceedings to which the certificate related-
(a) the provisions of the Ordinance which relate to sums re- covered by virtue of an agreement relating to costs made in favour of an aided person shall apply in so far as the costs were incurred while he was an aided person; and
(b) the provisions of the Ordinance which relate to an aided person's liability by virtue of an order for costs made against him shall apply in so far as the costs were incurred while he was an aided person.
(7) Where a notification in Form VII is filed in the registry of the court, all proceedings in the litigation shall, unless the court other- wise orders, be stayed for a period of fourteen days and during such period time fixed by or under any law or otherwise for the doing of any act or the taking of any step in the proceedings shall not run.
(8) The time during which proceedings are stayed by virtue of paragraph (7) may be reduced or extended by order of a judge of the court in which the litigation is pending.
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10. (1) Where, after proceedings have been instituted in any court, Legal aid any party becomes an aided person in regard to those proceedings, the after com Director shall only be liable to pay so much of the costs of the pro- of proceed ceedings as are incurred while a certificate is in force.
(2) Any solicitor who has acted in the proceedings on behalf of the aided person before the date of the certificate, and any solicitor who has by law a lien on any documents necessary for the proceedings to which the certificate relates and who has delivered them up subject to his lien, may give notice of the fact to the Director.
(3) If damages or costs are recovered for the aided person in the proceedings, the Director shall pay to such solicitor out of the sum so recovered the costs to which he would have been entitled on a taxation between solicitor and own client:
Provided that in any case where the sums so recovered are insuffi- cient to pay these costs in full in accordance with this paragraph and also to meet the net liability of the Director on the aided person's account the sum recovered in the proceedings shall be divided between the Director and the solicitor in proportion to the amount owing to cach, and the first charge for the benefit of the Director imposed by virtue of the Ordinance on property recovered or preserved in the pro- ceedings shall take effect accordingly.
(4) lo any case where there has been no order for taxation, the amount of the costs shall be fixed by the Director.
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11. (1) Where a person has applied for and has been refused a Repented certificate on more than four occasions and it appears to the Director refusal of
certificates. that his conduct has amounted to an abuse of the facilities provided by the Ordinance, the Director may order that no consideration shall be given to any future application by that person for a certificate with regard to any particular matter.
(2) No such direction shall-
(a) apply to any application by that person on behalf of an infant;
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(b) remain in force for a period longer than three years.
12. (1) Every set of papers, whether delivered by the Director Conduct of
to a solicitor or by a solicitor to counsel, shall be marked "Legal Aid", proceedings and no fees shall be marked thereon.
(2) Where it appears to the aided person's solicitor necessary for the proper conduct of the proceedings to take or to apply to the court for leave to take any one or more of the following steps, namely
(a) to add any further party to the proceedings; or
(b) to bespeak any transcript of shorthand notes of any proceed-
ings; or
by solicitors.