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Children, Youth and Families Act 2005
528AEnforcement of costs orders made in the Family Division
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528A Enforcement of costs orders made in the Family Division
***appropriate court*** means a court that has jurisdiction to enforce an amount of costs equivalent to that required to be paid under an order for costs;
***order for costs*** means an order for costs made by the Court—
(a) in proceedings in the Family Division; or
(b) under section 154 of the **Family Violence Protection Act 2008**; or
(c) under section 111 of the **Personal Safety Intervention Orders Act 2010**.
(2) A person in whose favour an order for costs is made may enforce the order by filing in the appropriate court a copy of the order certified by the principal registrar of the Court to be a true copy.
(3) On filing, the order must be taken to be an order of the appropriate court for payment of costs and may be enforced accordingly.
S. 528B inserted by No. 3/2016 s. 8.