Criminal Procedure Code 221 have been satisfied, but the order for payment shall not prejudice any right to a civil remedy for the recovery of any property or for the recovery of damages beyond the amount of compensation paid under the order. (5) Every order made under this section by a Magistrate shall be appealable to the High Court. Payment of expenses of prosecutors and witnesses 427. In every criminal case tried before the High Court, and in every criminal case tried before a Sessions Court or a Magistrate’s Court, the Court may in its discretion order payment out of the Consolidated Fund to the prosecutor and to the witnesses both for the prosecution and for the defence, or to such of them as it thinks fit, of the expenses incurred by them severally in and about attending the High Court, or the Sessions Court or Magistrate’s Court and also compensation for their trouble and loss of time, subject to such rules as are prescribed. Rules as to rates of payment 428. The rule committee may make rules as to the rates or scales of payment of the expenses to be ordered as aforesaid and concerning the form of the certificates hereinafter mentioned and the details to be inserted in it. 429. (Deleted by Act A908). Reward for unusual exertion 430. Whenever it appears to any Court that a private person has shown unusual courage, diligence or exertion in the apprehension of a person accused of having committed, attempted to commit or abetted an offence punishable with death or imprisonment, such Court may order payment to him out of the Consolidated Fund of any sum not less than one thousand ringgit and not more than ten thousand ringgit.

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