23.-(1) The foregoing provisions shall also apply to witnesses for the defence in trials on information whose costs are directed by the Court pursuant to section 164 of the Law to be paid out of the public revenue.
(2) Such provisions may also be applied in determining the costs payable to an accused person in cases coming under section 166 of the Law where such costs are directed to be paid by the person by whom in the opinion of the Court the charge was preferred, or whom it may consider responsible for having procured the same.