14Costs certificates not to be granted to certain persons

#### 14 Costs certificates not to be granted to certain persons (1) A court is not empowered by this Act to grant a costs certificate to: (a) the Commonwealth; (b) a State; (c) the Northern Territory; (d) a person suing, or being sued, on behalf of the Commonwealth, of any State or of the Northern Territory; (e) an authority of the Commonwealth, of any State or of any Territory (including the Northern Territory and Norfolk Island); (f) a body corporate that has a paid­‑up capital of $200,000 or more; or (g) a body corporate that is not a body corporate referred to in paragraph (f) but is related to such a body corporate. (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the question whether bodies corporate are related to each other shall be determined in the same manner as the question whether corporations, within the meaning of the Corporations Act 2001, are related to each other would be determined under that Act.