(1) The ^* Official Trustee may apply any income generated from ^* controlled property to the payment of amounts payable to the Official Trustee, in relation to the property, under regulations made for the purposes of section 288. (2) However, if the ^* restraining order relating to the ^* controlled property ceases to be in force and the property is returned to its owner, the ^* Official Trustee must arrange for an amount to be paid to the owner that is equal to the difference between:

(a)

the sum of all the amounts applied under this section in relation to the property; and

(b)

the sum of all the amounts of expenditure by the ^* Official Trustee that were necessary for maintaining the property or generating the income from property.

(3) This section does not affect other ways in which the ^* Official Trustee may recover amounts payable to the Official Trustee under regulations made for the purposes of section 288.