Deprivation or conversion of resources
12.—(1) If it appears to the Board that a person (A) has, with intent to reduce A’s disposable income or disposable capital, whether for the purpose of making A eligible for children’s legal aid, reducing A’s liability to pay a contribution or otherwise—
(a)directly or indirectly deprived A of any resources; or
(b)converted any part of A’s resources into resources which under these Regulations are to be wholly or partly disregarded or in respect of which nothing is to be included in determining the resources of A,
the resources of which A has been so deprived or which have been so converted are to be treated as part of A’s resources or as not so converted, as the case may be.
(2) Where it appears to the Board that an assisted person has acted in the way described in paragraph (1) it may make an amended determination in accordance with regulation 28 (power of the Board to amend determination).