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COSTS IN CRIMINAL CASES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 1

1.(1) Where any criminal proceedings are instituted by or on behalf of, or
taken over by, the Attorney General, or are instituted by a constable, or by
or on behalf of the Ministry of Home Affairs (in this Act referred to as "the
Ministry"), the costs of the prosecution of such proceedings (including any
costs incurred in connection with any matter preliminary or incidental to, and
with any appeal from, those proceedings) shall, subject to subsection (3), be
defrayed in the first instance by the Ministry.

(2) Except in the case of proceedings to which subsection (1) applies, the
costs of the prosecution of any criminal proceedings (including any costs
incurred in connection with any matter preliminary or incidental to, and with
any appeal from, those proceedings) shall, subject to subsection (3), be
defrayed in the first instance by the prosecutor.

(3) The costs to be defrayed by the Ministry under subsection (1) and, where
the prosecutor is any... department of the Government of Northern Ireland, the
costs to be defrayed by that department under subsection (2) shall be at such
rates or of such amounts as may be generally or specially approved by
the Ministry of Finance.

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