PART XXXII WIFE’S COSTS

93. After the Chief Registrar’s certificate that the pleadings are in order has been given, or at an earlier stage of a cause by order of a Judge to be obtained on summons, a wife who is petitioner or has filed an answer may file her bill or bills of costs for taxation as against her husband and the Chief Registrar shall ascertain what is a sufficient sum of money to be paid into Court or what is a sufficient security to be given by the husband to cover the costs of the wife of and incidental to the hearing of the cause, and may thereupon unless the husband shall prove to the satisfaction of the Chief Registrar that the wife has sufficient separate estate or show other good cause, issue an order upon the husband to pay her costs up to the setting down of the cause and to pay into Court or secure the costs of the hearing within a time to be fixed by the Chief Registrar. The Chief Registrar may in his discretion order the costs up to setting down to be paid into Court.

94. The bond taken to secure the costs of a wife of and incidental to the hearing of a cause shall be filed in the registry and shall not be delivered out or be sued upon without the direction of the Chief Registrar.

95. The order for payment of costs in which a respondent or co-respondent has been condemned by a decree nisi if drawn up before the decree nisi is made absolute, shall direct payment into Court, and such costs shall not be paid out of Court to the party entitled to receive them under the decree nisi until the decree absolute has been obtained; but a wife who is unsuccessful in a cause, and who at the hearing of the cause has obtained an order of the Judge for costs may nevertheless proceed at once to obtain payment of such costs after allowance thereof on taxation.