Hong Kong Regulations

COSTS IN CRIMINAL CASES RULES - RULE 5

Taxing authority

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 39 of 1999 s. 3

(1) For the purposes of section 20 of the Ordinance, where a court orders that
costs are to be taxed, those costs must be taxed by the taxing  authority in
accordance with this rule and rules 6 and 7.

(2) Subject to subrule (3), the taxing authority is-

   (a)  the Registrar of the District Court in the case of proceedings in a
        magistrates' court or the District Court;

   (b)  the Registrar of the High Court in the case of proceedings in the
        Court of First Instance or the Court of Appeal. (39 of 1999 s. 3)

(3) The taxing authority can appoint or authorize the appointment of public
officers as taxing officers to act on behalf of the taxing  authority under
this rule and rules 6 and 7 in accordance with directions given in writing or
on behalf of the taxing authority. (Enacted 1997)