Section 5Part 0 —
Costs of public officers or naval or military officers succeeding in litigation
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5. When any person holding any military or naval office under the Crown, in the Royal Air Force or any office in the Civil Service of the Islands, is a party to any action, suit or proceeding, and the Clerk of the Court, any legal officer of Government or any attorney-at-law, in accordance with General Orders or by the direction or at the instance of the Governor, or at the instance of the senior military or naval officer in the Islands, as the case may be, undertakes the case of such person, such person, if he gets judgment for his costs against the other party to such action, suit or proceeding, shall not be disentitled to recover the costs incurred in his behalf, by reason of his not having personally retained the Clerk of the Court, legal officers of Government or other attorney-at-law, or by reason of his not being personally responsible to the said Clerk of the Court, legal officers of Government or other attorney-at-law for the costs of undertaking his said case.