Section 19 | Provision For Orders As To Costs In Other Circumstances | Prosecution Of Offences Act 1985 C23

19 Provision for orders as to costs in other circumstances

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19 Provision for orders as to costs in other circumstances

(1) The Lord Chancellor may by regulations make provision empowering magistrates' courts, the Crown Court and the Court of Appeal, in any case where the court is satisfied that one party to criminal proceedings has incurred costs as a result of an unnecessary or improper act or omission by, or on behalf of, another party to the proceedings, to make an order as to the payment of those costs.

(2) Regulations made under subsection (1) above may, in particular—

(a) allow the making of such an order at any time during the proceedings;

(b) make provision as to the account to be taken, in making such an order, of any other order as to costs . . . which has been made in respect of the proceedings [or [of whether, for the purposes of the proceedings, representation has been provided under Part 1 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012]];

(c) make provision as to the account to be taken of any such order in the making of any other order as to costs in respect of the proceedings; and

(d) contain provisions similar to those