Magistrates Court (Civil Jurisdiction) (Solicitors' Costs) Regulations (Amendment) (ACT)

Regulations 1989   No. 71

Magistrates Court (Civil Jurisdiction) (Solicitors’ Costs) Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, MICHAEL CARTER TATE, the Minister of State for Justice, acting for and on behalf of the Attorney-General, hereby make the following Regulation under the Magistrates Court (Civil Jurisdiction) Ordinance 1982.

Dated 3 April 1989.

MICHAEL TATE

Minister of State for Justice

Insertion

After regulation 5 of the Magistrates Court (Civil Jurisdiction) (Solicitors’ Costs) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Increase in costs

“6.  (1)  In these Regulations, a reference to—

(a)the costs ascertained in accordance with an item in a Schedule; or

(b)a scale of costs set out in a Schedule;

shall be read as a reference to those costs, or that scale of costs, as the case requires, increased by 1.8%.

“(2)  Subregulation (1) applies only in relation to work done, or services performed, wholly on or after the commencement of this regulation.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 13 April 1989.

2. Regulations 1982 No. 31 as amended by Ordinance No. 67, 1985 and Regulations 1986 Nos. 3 and 26; 1987 No. 14; 1988 Nos. 1, 5, 19 and 24.

©  Australian Capital Territory 1989