Section 4 Recovery of Premises Act 1945

Section 4 Recovery of Premises Act 1945 is about Costs in the High Court. It provides as follows:

Where proceedings under this Act are brought in the High Court and the amount recovered or the value of the rent as ascertained does not exceed an amount which could have been recovered any set-off or with an admitted set-off in a magistrate’s court the plaintiff shall not be allowed costs in excess of those which he could have recovered had he brought an action in a magistrate’s court provided that when –

(a) the proceedings were in respect of a bona fide claim of right set up by the defendant under section 5 of this Act; or

(b) the involved court certifies that there was a question of law which rendered it advisable for a decision there- on to be made by the High Court,
the court may award costs on the scale applicable to actions brought in the High Court.

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