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Legal Services Act 2011

Legal aid - How Commissioner may enforce conditions of grant - Deduction notices

41D: Discharge of obligation

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"You don't have to pay back money already taken from you."

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If someone takes money from you because of a deduction notice, you do not have to pay that amount of money back. This is because you have already paid it through the deduction. You are freed from paying the overdue amount that was taken from you.

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Part 2Legal aid
How Commissioner may enforce conditions of grant: Deduction notices

41DDischarge of obligation

  1. In any case where a third party deducts, under a deduction notice, any money payable to an aided person, the aided person is, to the extent of the amount deducted, discharged from his or her obligation to pay the overdue amount.

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Notes
  • Section 41D: inserted, on , by section 14 of the Legal Services Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 43).