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Paragraph 31

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

At the end of section 120(4) (provisions as to Director of Public Prosections)f1 there shall be added:

“In respect of the costs of an election petition relating to a local election, this subsection shall have effect as if the words ‘so far as they are not in the case of any prosecution paid by the defendant’ were omitted.”.

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Section 120 was amended by Article 9(1) of the Prosecution of Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 (S.I. 1972/538 (N.I. 1)) and the functions of the Ministry of Finance were transferred by Article 5(2) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Northern Ireland (Modification of Enactments—No. 1) Order 1973 (S.I. 1973/2163).