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38 : who is to be admitted when the court sits in private and to exclude specified persons when it sits in public;
 * (g) as to what may be received as evidence (whether or not admissible apart from the Rules of Court) and the manner in which it is to be presented;
 * (h) for the enforcement of orders made and directions given in the proceedings;
 * (i) for regulating matters relating to the costs of those proceedings, including prescribing scales of costs to be paid to legal or other representatives;
 * (j) as to the way in which, and funds from which, fees and costs are to be paid;
 * (k) for charging fees and costs upon the estate of the person to whom the proceedings relate, provided that such charge shall not cause any interest of the person in any property to fail or determine or to be prevented from recommencing;
 * (l) for the payment of fees and costs within a specified time of the death of the person to whom the proceedings relate or the conclusion of the proceedings.

(3) Rules of Court may, instead of providing for any matter, refer to provision made or to be made about that matter by practice directions issued for the time being by the Registrar of the Supreme Court.

Costs

40.—(1) Subject to the Rules of Court, the costs of and incidental to all proceedings in the court are in its discretion.

(2) The court has full power to determine by whom and to what extent the costs are to be paid.

(3) The court may, in any proceedings—
 * (a) disallow; or
 * (b) order the legal or other representatives concerned to meet,

the whole of any wasted costs or such part of them as may be determined in accordance with the Rules of Court.