17EChief Justice to allocate Associate Judges as Costs Judges

17E Chief Justice to allocate Associate Judges as Costs Judges

(1) The Chief Justice must allocate an Associate Judge to be a Costs Judge of the Costs Court.

(2) The Chief Justice may allocate more than one Associate Judge as a Costs Judge to the Costs Court if the operational requirements of the Costs Court so require.

S. 17EA inserted by No. 34/2010 s. 14.

17EA Chief Justice may assign judicial registrars to Costs Court

The Chief Justice may assign one or more judicial registrars to the Costs Court if the operational requirements of the Costs Court so require.

S. 17F (Heading) amended by No. 34/2010 s. 15(1).

S. 17F inserted by No. 78/2008 s. 5.

17F Costs Judge may direct judicial registrars and costs registrars

Subject to this Act or any other Act, the Rules and any order of the Court, a Costs Judge—

S. 17F(a) amended by No. 34/2010 s. 15(2)(a).

(a) may direct that costs, or costs of a specific class or kind, be assessed, settled, taxed or reviewed by a judicial registrar or a costs registrar;

S. 17F(b) amended by No. 34/2010 s. 15(2)(b).

(b) may give general directions as to case management by judicial registrars or costs registrars.

S. 17G inserted by No. 78/2008 s. 5.

17G Powers and functions of costs registrar

(1) Subject to the general direction and control of a Costs Judge, a costs registrar may—

(a) assess, settle, tax or review costs in accordance with directions under section 17F and the Rules; and

(b) exercise the powers of the Costs Court conferred on a costs registrar by or under this Act or any other Act or by the Rules.

(2) In the performance of his or her duties as a costs registrar and the exercise of the powers of the Costs Court under subsection (1), a costs registrar is not subject to direction or control under the Public Administration Act 2004 or of any person or body.

(3) Subject to sections 17H and 17J, a determination made by a costs registrar—

(a) has effect as a judgment, an order or a direction (as the case requires) of the Costs Court; and

S. 17G(4) repealed by No. 64/2010 s. 65.

S. 17GA inserted by No. 34/2010 s. 16.

17GA Powers and functions of judicial registrar in Costs Court

(1) Subject to the Rules and the general direction and control of a Costs Judge, a judicial registrar may—

(a) assess, settle, tax or review costs in accordance with directions under section 17F and the Rules; and