§ REFERENCE TO COURT OF APPEAL OF POINT OF LAW ARISING IN TRIAL ON INDICTMENT WHERE ACCUSED HAS BEEN ACQUITTED
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Amendment made: No. 33, in page 23, line 27, leave out subsections (5) to (7) and insert:
(5) Where, on a point being referred to the Court of Appeal under this section or further referred to the House of Lords, the acquitted person appears by counsel for the purpose of presenting any argument to the court or the
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House, he shall be entitled to his costs, that is to say to the payment out of central funds of such sums as are reasonably sufficient to compensate him for expenses properly incurred by him for the purpose of being represented on the reference or further reference; and any amount recoverable under this subsection shall be ascertained, as soon as practicable, by the registrar of criminal appeals or, as the case may be, such officer as may be prescribed by order of the House of Lords.—[Mr. Carlisle.]