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Regulation 2 Interpretation

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In these Regulations—

  • “claim” means a claim for costs made by the receiving party;

  • “costs judge” means a taxing master of the Supreme Court;

  • “order” means an order of the court made under section 53A(3) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 that the Lord Chancellor make a payment in respect of the costs of a person in the proceedings;

  • “proceedings” means proceedings in respect of any act or omission of a justice of the peace or a justices' clerk in the execution (or purported execution) of his duty—

    1. (i)

      as a single justice; or

    2. (ii)

      as a justices' clerk exercising, by virtue of any statutory provision, any of the functions of a single justice;

  • “receiving party” means the person in whose favour the order is made.