Amendment of
esction 19.
Addition of
new section
19A.
4.
Section 19 of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting subsection (3).
5. The principal Ordinance is amended by adding the following new section after section 19—
"All money"
19A. (1) All moneys which may become pay.
due to aided able to an aided person- person to be
paid to
Director.
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(a) by virtue of an order made in connexion with the proceedings to which his legal aid certifi- cate relates;
(8) by virtue of any agreement made in con- nexion with the proceedings to which his legal aid certificate relates, whether such agreement be made before or after the pro- ceedings are actually begun;
(c) being moneys paid into court by him or on his behalf in connexion with the proceedings to which his legal aid certificate relates and ordered to be repaid to him; or
(d) being moneys standing in court to the credit of any proceedings to which bis legal aid certificate relates,
shall be paid or repaid, as the case may be, to the Director.
(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply where any court, authority or person, in exercise of a power under any law, gives any direction or exercises any discretion as to the payment of any sum to an aided person, and in such case the court, authority or person shall provide that the sum payable to the aided person shall be subject to a first charge for the beneft of the Director for any sum due to be paid or repaid to him under this Ordinance.
(3) The provisions of this section shall apply in relation to all sums which may become payable to an aided person, notwithstanding any provision in- (a) the Workmen's Compensation Ordinance; of (b) the Supreme Court Ordinance; or (c) any other law.
which
(i) restricts the payment of any sum to any
person; or
(H) prohibits the payment of any sum to any
person.
(4) Only the Director shall be capable of giving a good discharge for moneys which may become pay- able to the Directar under this section.".
This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which passed the Legislative Council on the 17th day of May, 1967, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill.
(Secretariat GR 9/3221/491)
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Deputy Clerk of Councils.