Rule 17 Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964

Rule 17 of the Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964 is under Part III (Trust accounts). It provides as follows:

There may be drawn from a trust bank account:

(a) money properly required for a payment in the execution of the particular trust;

(b) money to be transferred to a client account;

(c) such money, not being money subject to the particular trust, as may have been paid into the account under paragraph (b) of Rule 14 of these Rules; or

(d) money which may by mistake or accident have been paid into the account in contravention of Rule 16 of these Rules

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