Costs and payment thereof out of security deposits and return of such deposits

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Part III Part III

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(1) Costs including pleaders' ice shall be in the discrerion oT rhe prescrikd authority.
(2) If in any order as to costs under the provisions of the Part there is a drection for payment of costs by any party to any person, such costs shall, if they havc not been already paid, bc paid in full, or so far as possible, out of the security deposit made by such party under L~IS Part, or an application made in writing in that behalf within a period of one year from the date of such order to such authority as may be empowered in this behalf by he State Government by the person in whose favour the costs have ken awarded.
(3) If [here is any balance lef~ of the secun ty deposit under this Part after payment under sub-section
(2) of the costs referred to in hat sub-section, such balance, or where no costs have been awarded or no application as aforesaid has been made within the said period of one year, the whole of the said security deposit may, on an application made in that behalf in writing to the authority referred lo in sub-section
(2) by the person by whom the security hx been deposited or if such person dies aftcr making such deposit, by the legal representative, of such person, be returned to the said person or to his legal representatives, as the case may be.

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