Criminal Justice Administration Act 1851

V Secretary of State may make Regulations as to Costs, Expenses, and Compensations, and Certificates to be granted by examining Magistrates.

It shall be lawful for One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State to revoke any Regulations made under the Provision herein-before repealed, and to make Regulations as to the Rates or Seales of Payment of all or any Costs, Expenses, and Compensations to be allowed or ordered to be paid under the said Act or any other Act or this Act to Prosecutors and Witnesses, and to Persons attending the Court in obedience to any Recognizance or Subpoena, in Cases of Criminal Prosecutions, and (except as herein-after mentioned) to Persons who may have been active in or towards the Apprehension of Persons charged with Offences, and also Regulations as to the Rates or Scales of Payment according to which Certificates may be granted by the examining Magistrate or Magistrates in respect of the Expenses of any Prosecutor, or Witness or Witnesses for the Prosecution, or other Person, of attending before such Magistrate or Magistrates, and of any Compensation for Trouble and Loss of Time therein, in any Case where any Court or Judge is empowered under the said Act of the Seventh Year of King George the Fourth or any other Act or this Act to order Payment of such Expenses or Compensation, and concerning the Forms of such Certificates and the Details or Particulars to be inserted therein of the Expenses, Trouble, and Loss of Time to which such Certificates relate, and it shall be lawful for One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State from Time to Time to alter any such Regulations, or make new Regulations in relation to any of the Matters aforesaid, and such Regulations for the Time being shall be binding on all Courts and Persons whomsoever.