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243 Costs
243 Costs
(1) The Court of Disputed Returns may—
(a) award costs against an unsuccessful party to the petition, and
(b) recommend, in its discretion, that costs be paid by the Crown.
(2) The Court must not recommend that the costs of an unsuccessful party to a petition be paid by the Crown except in exceptional circumstances.