Clause 1 of the Bill seeks to empower the Attorneys Fidelity Fund Board of Control (Fund) established in terms of section 27 of the Attorneys Act, to form part of the structures that can approach the High Court to make an application to prohibit any practitioner from operating in any way in this of her trust account whilst there is a pending investigation against that practitioner. The Fund sought this inclusion in order to enable them to act when the relevant law society is unable to expediently make this application.