Costs in the

Virgin Islands.

Enforcing judgment.

Pending proceedings.

Revocation of Order of 1962.

20. Where the Judicial Committee directs a parly to bear the costs of an appeal incurred in the Virgin Islands, such costs shall be taxed by the proper officer of the Court in accordance with the rules for the time being regulating taxation in the Court.

21. Any Order which Her Majesty in Council may think fit to make on an appeal from a decision of the Court may be enforced in like manner as any decision of the Court should or might have been executed.

22.-(1) In respect of any decision of the British Caribbean Court of Appeal given in the exercise of any jurisdiction conferred upon it by any law in force in the Virgin Islands before the prescribed date, an appeal may be commenced, continued and concluded or continued and concluded, as the case may be, in accordance with the provisions of this Order as nearly as may be as if it were an appeal from a decision of the Court.

(2) Any Order that Her Majesty in Council may see fit to make on any such appeal or any Order made by Her Majesty in Council before the prescribed date on an appeal from a decision of the British Caribbean Court of Appeal given in the exercise of such jurisdiction, but not enforced before such commencement, may be enforced as if it were an Order made on appeal from the decision of the Court.

23. The British Caribbean (Appeal to Privy Council) Order in Council 1962(a), is revoked, in so far as it relates to the Virgin Islands, with effect from the prescribed date.

W. G. Agnew.

Sections 10(1) and 18.

THE SCHEDULE

I. Records and cases in appeals to Her Majesty in Council shall be printed in the form known as demy quarto.

II. The size of the paper used shall be such that the sheet, when folded and trimmed, will be 11 inches in height and 84 inches in width.

III. The type to be used in the text shall be pica type, but long primer shall be used in printing accounts, tabular matter and notes.

IV. The number of lines on each page of pica type shall be 47 or there- abouts, and every tenth line shall be numbered in the margin.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Note is not part of the Order.)

This Order makes provision in relation to appeals to Her Majesty in Council from decisions of the Court of Appeal established by the West Indies Associated States Supreme Court Order 1967 given in exercise of its jurisdiction under the law of the Virgin Islands.

(a) S.I. 1962/1087 (1962 II, p. 1255).

Printed in England and published by

HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE: 1967

(34632) (C. 25) K7 2/67 St.S.

TENPENCE NET

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