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provides a discretion to the County Court to order costs on appeal. The clause is designed to deter unmeritorious appeals to the County Court. Under subclause (1), the court may order that the appellant pay all or a specified portion of the respondent's costs where an appeal under clause 254 is struck out or dismissed; and where the court is satisfied that the appeal was brought vexatiously or frivolously or in abuse of process. Subclause (2) provides that nothing in subclause (1) limits any discretion of the court as to costs of an appeal conferred by this Bill or the County Court Act 1958. Subclause (3) allows the court to order that the appellant pay to the respondent any costs that it thinks reasonable where an appeal is commenced (and served) and the appeal was not afterwards prosecuted or the County Court has no jurisdiction to hear and determine the appeal. Finally, under subclause (4) the court may order that the appellant pay any costs incurred as a result of a breach of an undertaking or abandonment of an appeal.