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PARLIAMENTARY COSTS ACT 1865 - SECT 2

When committee report unanimously ""opposition unfounded'', promoters to be entitled to recover costs from petitioners.

2. When the committee on a private Bill shall decide that the preamble is
proved, and further unanimously report that the promoters of the Bill have
been vexatiously subjected to expense in the promotion of the said Bill by the
opposition of any petitioner or petitioners against the same, then the
promoters shall be entitled to recover from the petitioners, or such of them
as the committee shall think fit, such portion of their costs of the promotion
of the Bill as the committee may think fit, such costs to be taxed by the
taxing officer of the House as herein-after mentioned, or such a sum for costs
as the committee shall name, with the consent of the parties affected; and in
their report to the House the committee shall state what portion of the costs,
or what sum for costs, they shall so think fit to award, together with the
names of the parties liable to pay the same, and the names of the parties
entitled to receive the same: Provided always, that no landowner who bona8
fide at his own sole risk and charge opposes a Bill which proposes to take any
portion of the said petitioner's property for the purposes of the Bill shall
be liable to any costs in respect of his opposition to such Bill.

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