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

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Regulations    1988    No. 19¹

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 of the Commonwealth of Australia, hereby make the following Regulations under the Magistrates Court (Civil Jurisdiction) Ordinance 1982.

Dated 3 November 1988.

MICHAEL TATE

Minister of State for Justice

Interpretation

1.  In these Regulations, “Principal Regulations” means the Magistrates Court (Civil Jurisdiction) (Solicitors’ Costs) Regulations.

Increase in costs—22 December 1986 to 1 November 1987

2.  Regulation 6 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting from subregulation (1) “respectively” and substituting “as the case requires”.

Increase in costs—2 November 1987 to 2 February 1988

3.  Regulation 7 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting from subregulation (1) “respectively” and substituting “as the case requires”.

Increase in costs—3 February 1988 to 3 May 1988

4.  Regulation 8 of the Principal Regulations is amended—

(a)by omitting from subregulation (1) “respectively” and substituting “as the case requires”; and

(b)by omitting from subregulation (2) all the words after “expiration of” and substituting “3 May 1988”.

Increase in costs—from 4 May 1988

5.  Regulation 9 of the Principal Regulations is amended—

(a)by omitting from subregulation (1) “respectively” and substituting “as the case requires”; and

(b)by omitting from subregulation (2) all the words after “commenced” and substituting “during the period that commenced on 4 May 1988 and ended at the expiration of the day preceding the date of commencement of regulation 10”.

Insertion

6.  After regulation 9 of the Principal Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Further increase in costs

“10.  (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 13.34%.

“(2)  Subregulation (1) applies only in relation to work or services the performance of which commenced on or after the commencement of this regulation.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 16 November 1988.

2. Regulations 1982 No. 31 as amended to date.  For previous amendments see Note 2 to Regulations 1988 No. 1 and see also 1988 Nos. 1 and 5.