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

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Regulations    1987    No. 14¹

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

I, MICHAEL CARTER TATE, Minister 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 10 October 1987.

MICHAEL TATE

Minister for Justice

Interpretation

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

Increase in costs

2.  Regulation 6 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 22 December 1986 and ended on the expiration of the day preceding the date of commencement of regulation 7.”.

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

Further increase in costs

“7.  (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 5.78%.

“(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 2 November 1987.

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