House of Lords Costs Taxation Act, 1849

Clerk of Parliaments or clerk assistant to prepare list of charges allowed.

4. The clerk of the Parliaments, when discharging the duties of his office in person, or in his absence the clerk assistant, may from time to time prepare a list of such charges as it shall appear to him, that parliamentary agents, solicitors, and others, may justly make with reference to the several matters comprised in such list; and the several charges therein specified shall be the utmost charges thenceforth to be allowed upon the taxation of any such bill of costs, charges, and expences in respect of the several matters therein specified: Provided always, that the said taxing officer may allow all fair and reasonable costs, charges, and expences in respect of any matters not included in such list.