20(1)In section 3 (costs on appeal to criminal division of Court of Appeal), the following shall be inserted at the end of subsection (1):—
“Any amount ordered to be paid under this subsection shall, except where it is a specific amount ordered to be paid towards the said costs as a whole, be ascertained as soon as practicable by the registrar of criminal appeals and shall be payable to such person as may be named in the order.”
(2)In section 3(2) after the word " payment " there shall be inserted the words " to the appellant " and for the words from " The amount " to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted the following:—
“Any amount ordered to be paid under this subsection shall, except where it is a specific amount ordered to be paid towards the appellant's expenses as a whole, be ascertained as soon as practicable by the registrar of criminal appeals”;
(3)For section 3(3) there shall be substituted the following subsection—
“(3)Where an appellant who is not in custody appears before the criminal division of the Court of Appeal, either on the hearing of his appeal or in any proceedings preliminary or incidental thereto, the Court may direct that there be paid to him out of local funds the expenses of his appearance; and any amount ordered to be paid to him under this subsection shall be ascertained as soon as practicable by the registrar of criminal appeals.”