HL Deb 19 May 1970 vol 310 cc1036-7

[No. 61]

Schedule 9, page 52, line 44, at end insert— . Where a person convicted by a magistrates' court appeals to quarter sessions against conviction or sentence and quarter sessions makes an order as to costs to be paid by the respondent to the appellant.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR

My Lords, I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 61. Part II of Schedule 9 is intended to list all instances in which costs, compensation, and so on, may be ordered by a court to be paid by a person other than a convicted person. An order for such costs, compensation, et cetera, is enforceable, under Clause 36(2), as if it were for the payment of money recoverable summarily as a civil debt. The case in which a person convicted in a magistrates' court succeeds in his appeal to quarter sessions and is awarded costs against the prosecutor was inadvertently omitted from Part II of Schedule 9, and this Amendment corrects that error.

Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—[The Lord Chancellor.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.