Part 2Legal aid
How Commissioner may enforce conditions of grant: Deduction notices
41FMaking of deductions
Any person who makes a deduction under a deduction notice is deemed to be acting—
- on the authority of the aided person and any other person concerned; and neither the aided person nor that other person has any claim against the third party or the Commissioner or the Crown in respect of that deduction; and
- on behalf of the Commissioner; and, without prejudice to any other remedies against the aided person or any other person, any amount deducted must be held in trust for the Commissioner and is a debt due to the Commissioner and may be recovered in any court or tribunal of competent jurisdiction.
A third party must, on request, give the aided person a statement in writing of any amount deducted, and of the purpose for which the deduction was made.
Compare
- 1964 No 136 s 86E
Notes
- Section 41F: inserted, on , by section 14 of the Legal Services Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 43).


