Section 75: Costs

75. Costs (1) Subject to subsection (2), the District Court or the Intermediate Court may make such order as it thinks fit and reasonable regarding the costs— (a) to be paid by a party convicted of an offence; (b) by the prosecution, upon the dismissal of an information where the Court is satisfied that on the facts of the case no prosecution should have been brought against the party charged. (2) (a) No order as to costs shall be made, except in such special circumstances as the Magistrate thinks fit, where the Magistrate orders a convicted party to pay any sum as a fine, penalty, forfeiture or compensation which does not exceed 3 rupees. D13 – 21 [Issue 2] District and Intermediate Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act (b) The amount of the costs which an accused person under the age of 17 is ordered to be paid shall not exceed the amount of any fine imposed upon him. (c) The amount of the costs which any party is ordered to pay shall not exceed 500 rupees in any case tried by the Intermediate Court and 200 rupees in any case tried by a District Court. (3) The Magistrate shall specify in the conviction or in the order of dismissal, as the case may be, the amount of any costs that he orders to be paid under subsection (1). (4) The Judges of the Supreme Court may make rules to amend the figures specified in subsection (2) (c). [S. 75 amended by Act 50 of 1985; Act 4 of 1999.] 75A. —