Section 47 Costs : application to Supreme Court .F11

Where F1... F2the Supreme Court dismiss an application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court and the application was made by the F3Director of Service Prosecutions, ... the Supreme Court may direct the payment by the Secretary of State of such sums as appear to ... the Supreme Court to be reasonably sufficient to compensate the accused for any expenses properly incurred by him in resisting the application.

Where ... the Supreme Court dismiss an application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court and the application was made by the accused, ... the Supreme Court may make the like order as may be made by the Court under section 32(1) of this Act where they dismiss an application for leave to appeal to the Court; and any order made under this subsection may be enforced in the manner described in section 32(2) of this Act.

Section 32(3) of this Act applies in relation to any sum recovered by virtue of section 32(2)(a) (as applied by subsection (2)).

F5On determining an appeal from the Appeal Court, the Supreme Court may, if they think fit, direct the payment by the Secretary of State of such sums as appear to the House to be reasonably sufficient to compensate the accused for any expenses properly incurred by him in the F6proceedings (in the F7Court of Judicature and below). F8subject to—

The costs which the Supreme Court may direct the Secretary of State to pay do not include legal costs (as defined in section 31A) incurred in proceedings in a court below, except where regulations made by the Lord Chancellor provide otherwise.

Regulations under subsection (3A) may, in particular, include—

Except as provided by F10sections 46A, 46B and this section, no costs shall be allowed on the hearing or determination of an appeal from the Appeal Court to the Supreme Court, or of any proceedings preliminary or incidental to such an appeal.