Article 220 — Costs of public prosecution.

(I) AIl the costs of public prosecutions, including appeals, shaIl be borne by the government. (2) Where exceptional costs have been incurred by the prosecution for a reason attributable to the convicted person and he is a person of property, the court may, in addition to any other lawful punishment, order him to pay the whole or any of the costs incurred by the prosecution as taxed by the registrar of the court. (3) Where a public prosecution has been instituted in respect of an offence. punishable on complaint and the injured party withdraws his complaint (Art. 221 Penal Code), he shaIl be liable for all the costs of the prosecution.