22Costs

22 Costs

22 Costs

(1) For the Act, section 18(1)(c), each party to an appeal determined by the Tribunal must pay the party’s own costs.

(2) The Tribunal may order that a party must pay another party’s costs, in whole or in part, if satisfied—

(a) the appeal was frivolous or vexatious, or

(b) the party caused unreasonable delay in the conduct of the appeal, or

(c) the party conducted the appeal in a way that caused the other party to incur unreasonable costs.

(3) In granting leave to withdraw an appeal, the Tribunal may order the appellant to pay another party’s costs, in whole or in part, if satisfied of one of the matters specified in subsection (2)(a)–(c).

(4) Costs not paid by a party in accordance with an order made under subsection (2) or (3) may be recovered as a debt in a court of competent jurisdiction.