Legal Practice Act, 2014 (Act No. 28 of 2014)

Chapter 6 : Legal Practitioners' Fidelity Fund

Part 1 : Establishment of Fund and founding provisions

55. Liability of Fund

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(1)The Fund is liable to reimburse persons who suffer pecuniary loss, not exceeding the amount determined by the Minister from time to time by notice in the Gazette, as a result of theft of any money or other property given in trust to a trust account practice in the course of the practice of the attorney or an advocate referred to in section 34(2)(b) as such, if the theft is committed—
(a)by an attorney in that practice or advocate, or any person employed by that practice or supervised by that attorney or advocate;
(b)by an attorney or person acting as executor or administrator in the estate of a deceased person; or
(c)by an attorney or person employed by that attorney who is a trustee in an insolvent estate or in any other similar capacity,

excluding a curator to a financial institution in terms of the Banks Act, 1990 (Act No. 94 of 1990) or a liquidator of a mutual bank in terms of the Mutual Banks Act, 1993 (Act No. 124 of 1993).