Section 253: Adjournment may be granted subject to witnesses costs

The court may permit, on application of a party for an adjournment of the proceedings, and in so doing, may order the party seeking the adjournment to pay to a witness present in court and whose evidence it has not been possible to take owing to the adjournment such sum in the amount payable to a witness in accordance with section 251 and 252 of this Act, or such sum as the court may fix.