EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
SUPREME COURT ACT 1933
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY SUPREME COURT (FEES) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
(Statutory Rules 1989 No. 156)
Subsection 29(a) of the Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court Act 1933 provides that the Governor-General may make regulations prescribing the fees or other payments to be paid to officers of the Court in respect of proceedings in the Court.
The purpose of the Australain Capital Territory Supreme Court (Fees) Regulations (Amendment) is to amend the Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court (Fees) Regulations to increase the fees payable for filing of documents in the ACT Supreme Court.
The proposed Regulations will increase the Court fee payable for the filing of a document commencing proceedings from $240 to $300. The fee was last increased in June 1988 from $180 to $240 to bring it into line with the fees payable in the Federal Court of Australia, Family Court of Australia and the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
The proposed increase, which includes a component to account for the increase in the Consumer Price Index and an additional revenue component to assist in offsetting costs involved in running the courts, will bring the fee to the same level as that proposed in other superior courts administered by the Commonwealth.
Court fees are not payable in the Supreme Court where a litigant is in receipt of Legal Aid or where payment of the fee would impose hardship.
Authorised by the
Attorney-General