Clause 9

by deleting “$5,000” in the 1st line and substituting the words “the relevant amount”; and

by inserting, immediately after the word “payment” in the penultimate line, the words “, together with any sum payable in respect of costs,”.

by deleting subsection (3) and substituting the following subsections:“(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other written law, a public officer or an advocate and solicitor, acting in respect of the matters referred to in subsection (2), shall not receive or accept any payment of money for so acting other than —

such costs as are agreed between him and the Public Trustee;

taxed costs, in default of such agreement with the Public Trustee; or

such costs as the Public Trustee may determine to be the costs of the public officer or advocate and solicitor, if the public officer or advocate and solicitor fails to begin proceedings for taxation of costs within 3 months after the relevant date unless before that time the public officer or the advocate and solicitor has agreed with the Public Trustee on costs.(3A) Subsection (3) shall not apply to a public officer or an advocate and solicitor claiming costs in respect of a judgment or settlement for a sum not exceeding the relevant amount.(3B) For the purposes of subsection (3)(c), “relevant date” means —

the date the Public Trustee accepts or the court approves the payment referred to in section 6, as the case may be; or

the date the judgment of the court referred to in section 9(1) is given,as the case may be.”; and

by deleting the words “taxed costs” in the 2nd line of subsection (5) and the 1st and 2nd lines of subsection (6) and substituting in each case the words “costs referred to in subsection 3(a), (b) or (c)”.