(1)A relevant professional organisation 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 48(1)(a) or 49, any expenditure reasonably incurred by it in so doing.
(2)Expenditure incurred in taking action by virtue of section 48(1)(a) is recoverable under subsection (1) only where notice has been served under paragraph 2(a) of schedule 4 in connection with that action and—
(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.