Section 53 Expenses

The solicitor for the applicant, or if he is unrepresented, the applicant, shall be liable for the expenses of the application.

The High Court or the sheriff, as the case may be, may order the solicitor for the applicant, or the applicant, to consign in court such sum in respect of those expenses as they may specify on or before such date as they may specify.

In the event of the sum so specified not being consigned in court on or before the date so specified, the application shall be treated as having been abandoned.