New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MATRIMONIAL CAUSES ACT 1899 - SECT 50

50 Costs of intervention by Crown Solicitor

(1) Where the Crown Solicitor intervenes or shows cause against a decree nisi in any suit or proceeding for dissolution or for nullity of marriage the Court may make such order in respect to the costs of the Crown Solicitor and of all parties occasioned by the intervention or showing cause as seems just.

(2) The Court may order such costs to be paid by the Crown Solicitor or by the parties or one or other of them including a wife if she has separate estate.

(3) If the Crown Solicitor is not thereby fully satisfied his reasonable costs he may charge and be reimbursed the difference as part of the expense of his office.

(4) The Crown Solicitor and any party may recover such costs in like manner as costs may be recovered in other cases.

(5) The Attorney General may direct that any costs paid to a party by the Crown Solicitor in accordance with any order under this section shall be part of the expense of his office.