Section 19
Cancellation of certificate
The Director General of Legal Aid or any person appointed under subsection 3(2) may, at any time, and whether or not application has been made for the purpose, cancel any legal aid certificate issued under section 15 or 16 or, where so authorized by the Minister, under section 16A, and subject to subsection (2) of this section the person to whom the certificate was granted shall, as from the date of such cancellation, cease to be an aided person.
(2)
Where the legal aid certificate so cancelled has been filed in the registry of any court the Director General or any person appointed under subsection 3(2) shall file in court a notification of such cancellation, and, as from the date of filing of such notification, the person to whom the legal aid certificate was granted shall cease to be an aided person.
(3)
Upon the filing in court of such notification, then, unless otherwise ordered by a judge of the court in which the litigation is pending, all proceedings in the litigation shall, by virtue of this subsection, be stayed for a period of fourteen days and, subject as aforesaid, during such period, time fixed by or under any law or by or
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under any rules of court, regulations or otherwise for the doing of any act or the taking of any step in the proceedings shall not run.
(4)
The time during which proceedings are stayed by virtue of subsection (3) of this section may be reduced or extended by order of a judge of the court in which the litigation is pending.
(5)
The Director General or any person appointed under subsection 3(2) shall take such steps as seem to him reasonable or necessary to inform the person to whom a legal aid certificate has been granted of the cancellation of any such certificate.