East African Community Court of Justice Rules of Procedure, 2019. THIRD SCHEDULE TAXATION OF COSTS FIRST INSTANCE DIVISION ________ (Rule 129(3)) 1. In this Schedule, a folio means one hundred words, and a single figure or group of figures up to seven shall count as one word. 2. (1) Where costs are to be taxed, the advocate for the party to whom the costs were awarded shall lodge his or her bill with the taxing officer and shall, before or within seven (7) days after lodging it, serve a copy of it on the advocate for the party liable to pay it. (2) A bill of costs shall be lodged as soon as practicable after the making of the order for costs and not later than twenty-one (21) days after a request in writing therefor by the party liable, or such further time as the Registrar may allow. (3) A bill of costs may not be lodged by an advocate who is not on record. 3. (1) A bill of costs shall be instituted and filed in the proceedings and shall be in the form of a bill prepared in five columns as follows:(a) the first or left hand column for the dates of the items; (b) the second column for the serial numbers of the items; (c) the third column for the particulars of the service charged for; (d) the fourth column for the professional or scale charges; (e) the fifth column for the taxing officer’s deductions. 91