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Part 2Conduct and services complaints etc.: other matters

49Conduct complaints: financial impropriety

(1)If, in the course of an investigation into a conduct complaint under section 47, a relevant professional organisation has reasonable cause to believe that the practitioner, the practitioner’s firm (or any employee thereof) or, as the case may be, the employing practitioner, has been guilty of any financial impropriety it may apply to the court for an order under subsection (2).

(2)An order under this subsection is that no payment be made by any banker, building society or other body named in the order out of—

(a)any banking account in the name of such practitioner or firm; or

(b)any sum deposited in the name of such practitioner or firm,

without the leave of the court.