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PARLIAMENTARY COSTS ACT 1865 - SECT 1

When committee on private Bill report ""preamble not proved'', or insert provisions for benefit of petitioners, &c., petitioners to be entitled to recover costs.

1. When the committee on a private Bill shall decide that the preamble is not
proved, or shall insert in such Bill any provision for the protection of any
petitioner, or strike out or alter any provision of such Bill for the
protection of such petitioner, and further unanimously report, with respect to
any or all of the petitioners against the Bill, that such petitioner or
petitioners has or have been unreasonably or vexatiously subjected to expense
in defending his or their rights proposed to be interfered with by the Bill,
such petitioner or petitioners shall be entitled to recover from the promoters
of such Bill his or their costs in relation thereto, or such portion thereof
as the committee may think fit, such costs to be taxed by the taxing officer
of the House as herein-after mentioned; or the committee may award such a sum
for costs as they shall think fit, with the consent of the parties affected.

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