Section 44: Compensation scheme.

Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 · 1990 c. 41View on legislation.gov.uk

This provision is repealed
It is retained for historical reference and may not reflect the law currently in force.

Part II: Legal Services

REPEALED on 2009-03-31 by Legal Services Act 2007.

The text below is from the dated revised snapshot immediately preceding this status change. It is historical and is not current law. View the historical source.

The Board may, with the approval of the Secretary of State , make rules establishing a scheme for compensating persons who have suffered loss in consequence of dishonesty on the part of authorised practitioners or their employees.

The rules may, in particular—

provide for the establishment and functioning of an independent body (whether corporate or unincorporate) to administer the scheme and, subject to the rules, determine and regulate any matter relating to its operation;
establish a fund out of which compensation is to be paid;
provide for the levying of contributions from authorised practitioners and otherwise for financing the scheme and for the payment of contributions and other money into the fund;
specify the terms and conditions on which, and the extent to which, compensation is to be payable and any circumstances in which the right to compensation is to be excluded or modified; and
contain incidental and supplementary provisions.

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