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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 264
When costs of investigation are debt
(1) If
(a) an investigator states in his or her report of an investigation that there
is evidence that a breach of this Act or the regulations has been committed or
evidence that a default, within the meaning of Part 3.5 (Solicitors'
Guarantee Fund), has occurred in relation to the law practice whose affairs
are under investigation; and
(b) the prescribed authority is satisfied that the breach or default is wilful
or of a substantial nature
the prescribed authority may decide
that the whole or part of the costs of carrying out the investigation is
payable, by the law practice whose affairs have been subject to investigation,
to the prescribed authority and may specify the amount payable.
(2) The amount specified by the prescribed authority is a debt owing to
the prescribed authority by the law practice whose affairs have been
investigated.
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