Hong Kong Regulations

LEGAL AID (SCALE OF FEES) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 6

Advance of fees to counsel and solicitor

(1) The Director may before taxation make an advance to counsel or solicitor
of an amount not exceeding 75% of the sum which the Director estimates will be
payable under regulation 4 or 5 and such advance shall be on account of moneys
so payable.

(2) If the amount paid under subregulation (1) exceeds the amount payable
under regulation 4 or 5, the counsel or solicitor, shall repay the excess to
the Director. (Enacted 1989)