PART IV – PROVISIONS RELATING TO ALL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS
COSTS AND COMPENSATION
171. Power to order costs against accused or private prosecutor
(1) A judge of the High Court or a magistrate of a subordinate court of the first or second class may order a person convicted before him of an offence to pay to the public or private prosecutor, as the case may be, such reasonable costs as the judge or magistrate may deem fit, in addition to any other penalty imposed.
(2) A judge of the High Court or a magistrate of a subordinate court of the first or second class who acquits or discharges a person accused of an offence may, if the prosecution for the offence was originally instituted on a summons or warrant issued by a court on the application of a private prosecutor, order the private prosecutor to pay to the accused such reasonable costs as the judge or magistrate may deem fit:
Provided that—
(i) the costs shall not exceed twenty thousand shillings in the High Court or ten thousand shillings in the case of an acquittal or discharge by a subordinate court; and
(ii) no such order shall be made if the judge or magistrate considers that the private prosecutor had reasonable grounds for making his complaint.
172. Right of appeal from order as to costs
An appeal shall lie from an order awarding costs under section 171, if made by a magistrate to the High Court and if by a judge to the Court of Appeal; and the appellate court may give costs of the appeal as it shall deem reasonable.
173. Repealed by Act No. 13 of 1967, s. 5.
174. Costs and compensation to be specified in order, how recoverable
(1) Sums allowed for costs awarded under section 171 shall in all cases be specified in the conviction or order.
(2) If the person who has been ordered to pay costs fails so to pay, he shall, in default of distress levied in accordance with section 334 of this Code, be liable to imprisonment in accordance with the scale laid down in section 28 of the Penal Code (Cap. 63), unless the costs shall be sooner paid:
Provided that in no case shall the period of imprisonment imposed under this section exceed three months.
1. The ordinary costs for execution of requests in the territory of the requested State shall be borne by that State, except for the following, which shall be borne by the Court:
(a) Costs associated with the travel and security of witnesses and experts or the transfer under article 93 of persons in custody;
(b) Costs of translation, interpretation and transcription;
(c) Travel and subsistence costs of the judges, the Prosecutor, the Deputy Prosecutors, the Registrar, the Deputy Registrar and staff of any organ of the Court;
(d) Costs of any expert opinion or report requested by the Court;
(e) Costs associated with the transport of a person being surrendered to the Court by a custodial State; and
(f) Following consultations, any extraordinary costs that may result from the execution of a request.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall, as appropriate, apply to requests from States Parties to the Court. In that case, the Court shall bear the ordinary costs of execution.