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LEGAL AID ORDINANCE 1966.

(No. 36 of 1966).

LEGAL AID (SCALE OF FEES) REGULATIONS 1966,

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

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

2. The fee payable by the Director to counsel or solicitor making Feo payabla a report or giving an opinion under section 9 of the Ordinance shall be for report or such sum as the Director may decide, being not less than one hundred opinión and fifty dollars nor more than eight hundred dollars.

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3. The fee payable by the Director to counsel for issuing, or Foe payable refusing to issue, a certificate under section 16 of the Ordinance shall for cert be such sum as the Director may decide, being not less than one hundred section 16.

ficate under and fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.

The fees payable by the Director to counsel acting for an aided Fees payable person shall be such as may be allowed on taxation or, in default of to counsel taxation, as may be fixed by the Director, not exceeding such amount generally. as in the opinion of the Director would have been allowed if there had been taxation.

5. The amount payable by the Director to a solicitor acting for Fees and an aided person shall be-

(a) the full amount allowed on taxation on account of disburse-

ments: and

(b) eighty per centum of the amount allowed on taxation on

account of profit costs,

or, in default of taxation, such amount as may be fixed by the Director, not exceeding such amount as in the opinion of the Director would have been allowed if there had been taxation.

costs payable 10 solicitor.

CASES.

6. If a case. in respect of which legal aid has been granted, is Pees and referred to any person by a court, there shall be payable to counsel and costs fo solicitor the same fees and costs as would have been payable if the referred reference had been a proceeding in the court by which it was referred, and all proceedings in connexion with such reference shall be taxed by the court which referred them as if they were proceedings in the court.