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High Court Rules 1952
34Prohibition of fees
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34 Prohibition of fees
(1) Where a person intends to apply to be allowed to sue, defend or become a party as a poor person, a person who, with knowledge of that intention, takes or agrees to take or seeks to obtain from him a payment, fee, profit or reward for the conduct of the proceedings in the Court, is guilty of contempt of Court.
(2) While a person sues, defends or is a party as a poor person, a person who, except as provided by this Order, takes or agrees to take or seeks to obtain from him a payment, fee, profit or reward for the conduct of the proceedings in the Court is guilty of contempt of Court.
(3) If a poor person makes or gives or agrees to make or give a payment, fee, profit or reward for the conduct of the proceedings in the Court otherwise than as provided by this Order, an order shall forthwith be made revoking the order allowing him to sue, defend or be a party as a poor person, as the case may be, and he may not afterwards again in the same matter sue, defend or be a party as a poor person unless otherwise ordered.
35 Revoking order
(1) The Court or a Justice may at any time, and whether or not an application is made by another party or person for that purpose, revoke the order allowing a person to sue or defend or be a party as a poor person.
(2) Upon the revocation, the poor person is not entitled to the benefit of this Order in a proceeding to which the order relates unless otherwise ordered.