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

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Regulations    1988    No. 1¹

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

I, MICHAEL CARTER TATE, 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 14 January 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 (2) all the words after “expiration of” and substituting “1 November 1987”.

Increase in costs—from 2 November 1987

3.  Regulation 7 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting from subregulation (2) all the words after “work” and substituting “or services the performance of which commenced during the period that commenced on 2 November 1987 and ended at the expiration of the day preceding the date of commencement of regulation 8.”.

4.  After regulation 7 of the Principal Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Further increase in costs

“8.  (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, respectively, increased by 8%.

“(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 3 February 1988.

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