Part 7Complaints and discipline
Complaints
160Complaints by beneficiaries in relation to costs
If a trustee, executor, or administrator has become chargeable with a bill of costs, any person interested in any property out of which a trustee, executor, or administrator has paid or is entitled to pay the bill may, under section 132(2), complain about the amount of the bill.
If a Standards Committee, on a complaint made pursuant to subsection (1), orders that any money be paid by a practitioner or former practitioner or an incorporated firm or former incorporated firm, it may, if it thinks fit, order that the money or any part of it be paid to the trustee, executor, or administrator chargeable with the bill, instead of to the complainant.
If the complainant pays any money to the practitioner or former practitioner or incorporated firm or former incorporated firm in respect of the bill, the complainant has the same right to be paid by the trustee, executor, or administrator chargeable with the bill as the practitioner or former practitioner or incorporated firm or former incorporated firm had.
This section does not limit the right of a trustee, executor, or administrator to complain under section 132(2) about the amount of a bill of costs with which the trustee, executor, or administrator has become chargeable.
Compare
- 1982 No 123 s 147(1), (3)