Section 10: Payment of fees or rewards
repealed (no longer in force). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today. The records juris holds show this law as repealed.
10. Payment of fees or rewards
(1) (a) No person shall take or agree to take or seek to obtain from a
person to whom legal aid or legal assistance has been granted any fee or
reward for the conduct of his business in Court.
(b) Any person who contravenes paragraph (a) shall commit an
offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 10,000 rupees
and to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year.
(2) (a) No fee shall be paid to a barrister or an attorney by a person to
whom legal aid or legal assistance is granted.
(b) Where a person to whom legal aid or legal assistance is granted
gives or agrees to give any fee or reward to another person, the grant of
legal aid or legal assistance shall be revoked by the Authority and that
person shall not be granted legal aid or legal assistance again to be a party in
the same proceedings.
[S. 10 amended by s. 13 of Act 13 of 2012 w.e.f. 5 November 2012.]
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- What is the penalty for taking a fee from someone who has legal aid?
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