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(1)Section 27 of this Act shall not apply to proceedings for an order of prohibition, mandamus or certiorari, or to proceedings arising out of anything done or omitted by any person in his capacity as or as a member of a court of quarter sessions.
(2)The Lord Chancellor may, if he thinks fit, defray out of moneys provided by Parliament—
(a)any costs awarded against a justice, justices' clerk or clerk of the peace in proceedings for an order of prohibition, mandamus or certiorari, or any part of such costs;
(b)any such costs, damages or other sums as could be the subject of indemnity under section 27 of this Act if that section applied to proceedings in respect of things done or omitted in quarter sessions and the persons qualified for indemnity thereunder included (as well as a recorder) any deputy or assistant recorder and any clerk of the peace.
(3)In this section " justices' clerk " has the same meaning as in section 27 of this Act and " clerk of the peace " includes a deputy clerk of the peace and a member of the staff of a clerk of the peace.
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