Magistrates Court (Refund of Fees) Amendment Act 2002 (ACT)

Magistrates Court (Refund of Fees) Amendment Act 2002

Act 2002 No 36

An Act to amend the Magistrates Court Act 1930

Notified under the Legislation Act 2001 on 10 October 2002

(see Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

1. Name of Act

   This Act is the Magistrates Court (Refund of Fees) Amendment Act 2002.

2. Commencement

   This Act commences on the day after its notification day.

3. Act amended

   This Act amends the Magistrates Court Act 1930.

4. Remission, refund, deferral, waiver and exemption of fees
   New sections 248C (3) to (5)

   insert

5. If the administrative appeals tribunal is satisfied that a proceeding ends in a way that is favourable to an applicant for a review by the tribunal of a decision, it may order another party to the proceeding to pay the amount of the application fee to the applicant.

6. Subsection (3) applies to an application that ends after subsection (3) commences, whether the application was made before or after the commencement of subsection (3).

7. Subsection (4) and this subsection expire 1 year after subsection (3) commences.

Endnotes

Republications of amended laws

For the latest republication of amended laws, see align="center">[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 26 June 2002]

I certify that the above is a true copy of the Magistrates Court (Refund of Fees) Amendment Bill 2002 which was passed by the Legislative Assembly on 25 September 2002.

Clerk of the Legislative Assembly

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