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Provisions as to costs where Attorney General intervenes or shows cause

Cap. 91, s. 137 · Revised Edition 2020

(1) Where the Attorney General intervenes or shows cause against a decree nisi in any proceedings for divorce or for nullity of marriage, the Court may make such order as to the payment by other parties to the proceedings of the costs incurred by him in so doing or as to the payment by him of any costs incurred by any of the said parties by reason of his so doing, as may seem just. (2) So far as the reasonable costs incurred by the Attorney General in so intervening or showing cause are not fully satisfied by any order made under this section for the payment of his costs, he shall be entitled to charge the difference as part of the expenses of his office, and the judge may, if he thinks fit, order that any costs which under any order made by the Court under this section the Attorney General pays to any parties shall be deemed to be part of the expenses of his office.
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