18Power of Commission to recover certain expenses
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(1)The Commission is, subject to subsection (2), entitled to recover from a practitioner, the practitioner’s firm or, as the case may be, the employing practitioner, in respect of whom it has taken any action by virtue of section 17, any expenditure reasonably incurred by it in so doing.
(2)Expenditure incurred in taking action by virtue of section 17 is recoverable under subsection (1) only where notice has been served under paragraph 2(a) of schedule 2 in connection with that action and either—
(a)no application has been made in consequence under paragraph 3 of that schedule; or
(b)the court, on such an application, has made a direction under paragraph 4 of that schedule.