1 In all Crown suits, &c. where the Crown is successful costs to be recovered as between subject and subject.
In all informations, actions, suits, and other legal proceedings to be hereafter instituted before any court or tribunal whatever in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, by or on behalf of the Crown, against any corporation, or person or persons, in respect of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or of any goods or chattels, belonging or accruing to the Crown, the proceeds whereof, or the rents or profits of which said lands, tenements, or hereditaments, by any Act now in force or hereafter to be passed are to be carried to the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, or in respect of any sum or sums of money due and owing to Her Majesty by virtue of any vote of Parliament for the service of the Crown, or of any Act of Parliament relating to the Public Revenue, Her Majesty’s Attorney General, or in Scotland the Lord Advocate, shall be entitled to recover costs for and on behalf of Her Majesty, where judgment shall be given for the Crown, in the same manner, and under the same rules, regulations, and provisions, as are or may be in force touching the payment or receipt of costs in proceedings between subject and subject; and such costs shall be paid into the Exchequer, and shall become part of the Consolidated Fund.
S. 1 extended to Isle of Man by Crown Suits (Isle of Man) Act 1862 (c. 14), S. 1

Act repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt.I Group 1.