Section 245 - Expenses of investigation.

Reimbursement of investigation expenses: specified parties may be required to reimburse state costs and face charge on recoveries.

Investigation expenses are initially paid by the Central Government but are recoverable from convicted persons prosecuted under section 242 or ordered to pay damages/restoration under section 244; companies are liable to the extent of recoveries and such liability is a first charge on those sums or property. If no prosecution follows, companies, bodies corporate, managing directors or managers dealt with in the inspector's report may be required to reimburse the whole expenses unless the Central Government directs otherwise, and applicants who requested the investigation may be directed to contribute. Unrecovered expenses are paid from parliamentary funds.