(1) No liquidator, receiver, administrator, examiner, official assignee or creditor of an investment firm shall have or obtain any recourse or right against client funds or client financial instruments or documents of title relating to such financial instruments received, held or paid on behalf of a client by an investment firm, until all proper claims of clients or of their heirs, successors or assigns against client funds and client financial instruments or documents of title relating to such financial instruments have been satisfied in full.
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a liquidator, receiver, administrator, examiner or official assignee may have recourse or right against client funds or client financial instruments or documents of title relating to such financial instruments received, held or paid on behalf of a client by an investment firm in respect of such reasonable expenses as are incurred -
(a) in the carrying out of their functions under these Regulations or under the
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