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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT 1921 - SECT 156

156—Costs

        (1)         If a question is reserved on application by the Attorney-General or the Director of Public Prosecutions on an acquittal, the Crown is liable to pay the adjudicated costs of the defendant in proceedings for the reservation and determination of the question.

        (2)         If the defendant does not appear in the proceedings, the Crown must instruct counsel to present argument to the Court that might have been presented by counsel for the defendant.



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