Suitors' Fund (Amendment) Act 1960 (NSW)

SUITORS’ FUND (AMENDMENT) ACT.

Act No. 8, 1960.

EUzabethn, An Act to make further provision in respect of liability

N o.^960. Qf certain litigation; for this purpose to

amend the Suitors’ Fund Act, 1951-1959, and the Suitors’ Fund (Amendment) Act, 1959, in certain respects; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 24th March, I960.]

O E it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by

and with the advice and consent of the Legislative

Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as

follows; —•

Short title,	1. (1) This Act may be cited as the “Suitors’ Fund (2) The Suitors’ Fund Act, 1951, as amended by the Suitors’ Fund (Amendment) Act, 1959, and by this Act, may be cited as the Suitors’ Fund Act, 1951-1960.
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(3) This Act shall be deemed to have commenced upon the first day of November, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-one.

Amendment 2. The Suitors’ Fund Act, 1951, as amended by the

3^195^^°’ Suitors’ Fund (Amendment) Act, 1959, is amended—

Sec. 2. (a) (i) by omitting from paragraph (a) of the defini-

(Defini-

tion of “Costs” in section two the words “ to a

judge in chambers” ;

(ii)   by inserting in the definition of “Indemnity certi­ ficate” in the same section after the words “subsection one” the words and symbols “or

subsection (1a) ” ;

(b)

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(b) (i) by omitting from subsection one of section six No. 8, i960.

the words “in civil proceedings” :

Sec. 6,

(ii)  by inserting next after the same subsection the (Costs of

following new subsection : — certain

® appeals.)

(1a) Where an appeal against the decision of a court to the Industrial Commission of New South Wales or to a District Court or to a judge of a District Court on a question of law succeeds, that Commission, Court or judge, as the case may be, may, upon application made in that behalf, grant to the respondent to the appeal or to any one or more of several respondents to the appeal an indemnity certifi­ cate in respect of the appeal.

(c) seven the words “and with respect to the taxation, (Regula-

by inserting at the end of subsection two of section sec. 7. incurred by a respondent and with respect to all matters relating thereto, including but without limit­ ing the generality of the foregoing provisions of this subsection—

(a)	the specification of the principles to be followed in the preparation of a bill of those costs and in the taxation of such a bill;
(b)	the specification of who shall be the taxing ofiBcer of such a bill and m relation thereto that different persons or officers shall be the taxing officers in respect of bills that relate to different courts or different juris­ dictions of a court;
(c)	the persons to be served with a copy of such a bni”.

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