Legal Services Regulation Act 2015

Information, documents, records, etc.

166. (1) Any information or document provided, before the day on which this section commences, to a Taxing-Master, or a County Registrar exercising the powers of a Taxing-Master, under a statute or rule of court relating to the taxation of legal costs, shall, on and after that day, be treated as information or a document provided to the Chief Legal Costs Adjudicator under this Part.

(2) A book, index, document or other record (including such a record in electronic or other non-legible form that is capable of being converted into permanent legible form) that was held, before the day on which this section commences, by a Taxing-Master, or a County Registrar exercising the powers of a Taxing-Master, under a statute or rule of court relating to the taxation of legal costs, shall, on and after that day, be treated as such a record held by or on behalf of the Chief Legal Costs Adjudicator.