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LEGAL AID ORDINANCE 1966.

(No. 36 of 1966).

LEGAL AID (ASSESSMENT OF CONTRIBUTIONS)

REGULATIONS 1966.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 28 of the Legal Aid Ordinance 1966, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations

1. These regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid (Assessment Citation and of Contributions) Regulations 1966, and shall come into operation on the day appointed for the commencement of the Legal Aid Ordinance 1966.

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2. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires— lnterpreta- "disposable capital" means capital as assessed in accordance with the

provisions of regulation 4:

"disposable income" means income as assessed in accordance with the

provisions of regulation 5.

3. The maximum contribution of an aided person shall be-

(a) a contribution in respect of disposable income in accordance

with the First Schedule; and

Contribo- tions from legally aided persons.

First

(b) a contribution in respect of disposable capital in accordance

with the Second Schedule.

Schedule.

Second Schedule.

4.

(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (3), there shall be Computing included in the computation of the disposable capital of a person sock- disposable

capital. ing or receiving legal aid, the amount or value of every resource ascer- tained as on the date of application for legal aid or on such other date as the Director may decide.

(2) So far as any resource does not consist of money, the value shall be taken to be the amount which it would realize on sale in the open market.

(3) There shall not be taken into account in computing the dis- posable capital of a person seeking or receiving legal aid-

(a) the amount of any debt, other than a scoured debt, owed to him unless, in the opinion of the Director, the debt is readily realizable;

(b) the first twenty thousand dollars of the value of his interest in his dwelling house after deduction of encumbrances thereon; (c) the value of household furniture and effects, personal clothing,

tools and implements of trade: