Section 50 — Costs and payment thereof out of security deposits and return of such deposits.

50. Costs and payment thereof out of security deposits and return 

of such deposits.- (1) Costs including pleader's fee shall be in the discretion 

of the prescribed authority.   

(2) If in any order as to costs under the provisions of this part there is 

a direction for payment of costs by any party to any person, such costs shall, 

if they have not been already paid, be paid in full, or so far as possible, out of 

the security deposit made by such party under this part, on an application, 

made in writing in that behalf within a period of one year from the date of 

such order to such authority as may be empowered in this behalf by the 

Government, by the person in whose favour the costs have been awarded.  

(3) If there is any balance left of the security deposit under this part 

after payment under sub-section (2) of the costs referred to in that sub-

section, such balance, or where no costs have been awarded or no application 

as aforesaid has been made within the said period of one year, the whole of 

the said security deposit may, on an application made in that behalf in 

writing to the authority referred to in sub-section (2) by the person by whom 

the security has been deposited, or if such person dies after making such 



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deposit, by the legal representatives of such person, be returned to the said 

person or to his legal representatives, as the case may be.