s 51 Costs
(1) In any proceedings arising from an objection to the amount of an award, costs shall be borne in accordance with the following provisions: (a) where the amount of the Court award does not exceed the sum awarded by the Land Administrator the costs shall be paid by the applicant; (b) where the amount of the Court award exceed the sum awarded by the Land Administrator, the costs shall ordinarily be paid by the Land Administrator, but if the Court is of opinion that the claim of the applicant was so excessive or that he was so negligent in putting his case before the Land Administrator that some deduction from his costs should be made, or that he should pay a part of the Land Administrator’s costs, the Court may make such order as to costs as it may think fit; (c) where the claim of the applicant made pursuant to any notice under section 10 or 11 exceeds by twenty per cent or more the amount of the Court award, he shall not be entitled to his costs. (2) The costs, if any, payable by the applicant may be recovered as if they were costs incurred in a suit in the High Court and as if the award were the decree therein.