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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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