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

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Regulations    1986    No. 26¹

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

I, LIONEL FROST BOWEN, the Attorney-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, hereby make the following Regulation under the Magistrates Court (Civil Jurisdiction) Ordinance 1982.

Dated 12 December 1986.

LIONEL BOWEN

Attorney-General

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, respectively, increased by 2.9%.

“(2)  Sub-regulation (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 22 December 1986.

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