174. Costs of proceedings before Director-General and Court

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

(1)

In all proceedings before the Director-General under this Act, the Director-General shall have power to award any party such costs as he may consider reasonable, and to direct to whom and to what parties they are to be paid, and such order may be filed in Court, and thereupon such order may be enforced as if it were an order of the Court.

(2)

In any proceedings before a Court under this Act, the

Director-General shall not be ordered to pay costs. The Court may however in its descretion Order the payment of costs to the Director-General.

Read on from s 175