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s 18 Contributions from aided persons
(1) Any person to whom a legal aid certificate is granted under section 16 or 16A in respect of any proceedings may be required to make any contribution in a lump sum or by instalment.
(2) (Deleted by Act A1188).
(3) If the total contribution made by a person in respect of any proceedings is more than the net liability of the Director General on his account, the excess shall be repaid to him.
(4) Except in so far as regulations may otherwise provide any sums remaining unpaid on account of a person’s contribution in respect of any proceedings and, if the total contribution is less than the net liability of the Director General on his account, a sum equal to
the deficiency shall be a first charge on any property (wherever situate) which is recovered or preserved for that person in the proceedings.
(5) The reference in the preceding subsection to property recovered or preserved for any person, shall include his rights under any settlement or compromise arrived at to avoid or bring to an end the proceedings and any sums recovered by virtue of an order for costs made in his favour in the proceedings (not being sums otherwise payable to the Director General).
(6) The charge created by subsection (4) of this section on any damages or costs shall not prevent a court allowing them to be set off against other damages or costs in any case where a solicitor’s lien for costs would not prevent it.
(7) References in this section to the net liability of the Director General on any person’s account in relation to any proceedings refer to the aggregate amount of the sums paid or payable by the Director General on his account and where the person has been represented in the proceedings by the Director General, such sums as would in the opinion of the Director General have been payable on the person’s account had he been represented by a solicitor assigned to him, in respect of those proceedings and not recouped by sums which are recovered by virtue of an order or agreement for costs made in his favour with respect to those proceedings.
Malay text (authoritative)
(1) Sumbangan. yang kenła di-bayar kapada/ Pengarah guaman di-bawah oleh manaz orang yangto-kanisatshpekuzerkenaan dengan sa-suatu pembicharaan boleh termasok- AA57฿ d/A AUB Os ringgit; dan
(b) sumbangan , berkenaan dengan pendapatan sabanyak tidak lebeh daripada_sa-tengah daripada jumlah baki pendapatan boleh-guna-nya_sa-tahun- (jika ada) sa-lepas di-tolak satu ribu ringgit.
(2) Mana? orang itu boleh di-kehendaki membayar sumbangan dengan sa-kali gus atau dengan ansoran.
(3) Jıka jumlah sumbangan yang dı-bayar oleh sa-saorang berkenaan dengan sa-suatu pembicharaan itu lebel darı- pada tanggongan berseh/rengarah atas akaun orang ıtu, maka lebeh-nya itu hendak-lah di-pulangkan kapada orang
(4) Kechuali sa-takat mana sa-lain-nya di-peruntokkan oleh peratoran?, apa2 wang yang maseh belum di-bayar atas akaun şumbangan sa-saorang berkenaan dengan șasuatu pembicharaan dan, jika jumląltusumbangan itu kurang daripada tanggongan berseh/Pengarah atas akaun orang itu, maka sa-jumlah wang yang sama banyak-nya dengan kekurangan itu hendak-lah menjadi suatu perdalam pembicharaan itu.
(5) Sebutan dalam sekshen-kechil (4) sekshen mengenai harta yang dı-dapatı atąu di-pertahankan bagı mana2 orang, hendak-lah termasok hak2-nya di-bawah apa? penyelesaian atau tolakansor yang telah di-chapai untok mengelak atau menamatkan pembicharaan itu dan juga apa- wang yang di-dapati menurut sa-suatu perentah untok kos yang di-buat bagi faedah-nya dalam pembicharaan itu Sub(Aranos /o3 ketugCia-itu kapada Pengarah)..
[Bhg. IV, S. 18-19]
(6) Pertanggongan yang di-wujudkan oleh sekshen-kechil
(4) sekshen ın1 ka-atas apa- gantıtosak atau kos tidak meng. halang mahkamah daripada membenarkan gantirosak daı pogutu dintolak os tidak meighgangsnyak atau kos jika lien
(7) Sebutan2 dalam sekshen ini mengenaï tanggongan berseh/Pengarah atas akaun mana? orang berhubong dengan oleh peguam yang dı-pertugaskan untok-nya, berkenaaı dengan pembicharaan itu dan jumlah wang itu tidak dibayarganti dengan wang yang di-dapati menurut sa-suatu faedah-nya berkenaan dengan pembicharaan itu. kopaa
Text as at 1 November 2013 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.
Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).
