Contents

1............ Short title see Note 1] ....................................................................... 1

2............ Commencement [see Note 1] .............................................................. 1

3............ Interpretation ...................................................................................... 1

4............ Costs to be costs as between party and party etc. ............................ 3

5............ Extension to external Territories ......................................................... 4

6............ Costs certificates for respondents--Federal appeals ......................... 4

7............ Costs certificates for appellants--Federal appeals ............................ 4

7A......... Costs certificates for appellants where no respondent ...................... 5

8............ Costs certificates--new trials ............................................................. 6

9............ Costs certificates--Federal appeals in family law proceedings ......... 6

10.......... Costs certificates--incomplete proceedings ....................................... 7

10A....... Costs certificates--Administrative Appeals Tribunal ....................... 8

11.......... Costs of appeal include costs of earlier appeals ................................. 8

12.......... Costs certificates may be granted in Chambers .................................. 8

13.......... No appeal against refusal of costs certificate ..................................... 8

14.......... Costs certificates not to be granted to certain persons ....................... 9

15.......... Vacation of costs certificates .............................................................. 9

16.......... Payments on costs certificates ......................................................... 10

17.......... No payment in respect of costs certificates capable of being vacated 10

18.......... Limits of payments in respect of appeals or other proceedings ...... 11

19.......... Payments to be made out of annual appropriation .......................... 12

20.......... Delegation ......................................................................................... 12

21.......... Application ....................................................................................... 12

22.......... Regulations ....................................................................................... 13

Schedule--Prescribed maximum amount                                                                 14

Notes                                                                                                                                             15

 

An Act relating to costs in federal courts, courts of certain Territories and the Administrative Appeals Tribunal

 

 

Notes to the Federal Proceedings (Costs) Act 1981

Note 1

The Federal Proceedings (Costs) Act 1981 as shown in this compilation comprises Act No. 23, 1981 amended as indicated in the Tables below.

For application, saving or transitional provisions made by the Corporations (Repeals, Consequentials and Transitionals) Act 2001, see Act No. 55, 2001.

All relevant information pertaining to application, saving or transitional provisions prior to 1 April 2005 is not included in this compilation. For subsequent information see Table A.

Table of Acts

Act	Number and year	Date of Assent	Date of commencement	Application, saving or transitional provisions
Federal Proceedings (Costs) Act 1981	23, 1981	14 Apr 1981	14 Apr 1981
Companies and Securities Legislation (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 1981	153, 1981	26 Oct 1981	Part I (ss. 1, 2): Royal Assent Part II (ss. 3, 4): 1 July 1982 (see Gazette 1982, No. S124) Parts III, IV and VI (ss. 5-15, 18-20): 1 Mar 1982 (see Gazette 1982, No. S36) Part V (ss. 16, 17): 1 July 1981 (see s. 2(3) and Gazette 1981, No. S118) Remainder: 1 July 1982 (see s. 2(4) and Gazette 1982, No. S124)	--
Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 2) 1983	91, 1983	22 Nov 1983	S. 3: 20 Dec 1983 (a)	S. 6(1)
Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 1) 1985	65, 1985	5 June 1985	S. 3: 3 July 1985 (b)	--
Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1988	38, 1988	3 June 1988	S. 3: 1 Nov 1988 (see Gazette 1988, No. S333) (c)	S. 5(1) and (2)
Territories Law Reform Act 1992	104, 1992	30 June 1992	Ss. 3-8, 11-18, 20, 23 and 24: 1 July 1992 Ss. 9, 10, 19, 21 and 22: 29 June 1993 (see Gazette 1993, No. S196) Remainder: Royal Assent	--
Law and Justice Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 1995	175, 1995	16 Dec 1995	16 Dec 1995	--
Statute Law Revision Act 1996	43, 1996	25 Oct 1996	Schedule 2 (item 57): (d) Schedule 5 (items 59-61): Royal Assent (d)	--
Federal Magistrates (Consequential Amendments) Act 1999	194, 1999	23 Dec 1999	Schedule 13: 23 Dec 1999 (see s. 2(1)) (e)	--
Corporations (Repeals, Consequentials and Transitionals) Act 2001	55, 2001	28 June 2001	Ss. 4-14 and Schedule 3 (item 185): 15 July 2001 (see Gazette 2001, No. S285) (f)	Ss. 4-14
Administrative Appeals Tribunal Amendment Act 2005	38, 2005	1 Apr 2005	Schedule 1 (items 208, 209): 16 May 2005	Sch. 1 (item 209) [see Table A]

(a)     The Federal Proceedings (Costs) Act 1981 was amended by section 3 only of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 2) 1983, subsection 2(1) of which provides as follows:

                 (1)   Subject to this section, this Act shall come into operation on the twenty-eighth day after the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

(b)    The Federal Proceedings (Costs) Act 1981 was amended by section 3 only of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 1) 1985, subsection 2(1) of which provides as follows:

                 (1)   Subject to this section, this Act shall come into operation on the twenty-eighth day after the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

(c)     The Federal Proceedings (Costs) Act 1981 was amended by section 3 only of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1988, subsection 2(4) of which provides as follows:

                 (4)   The amendment of the Federal Proceedings (Costs) Act 1981 made by this Act commences on a day to be fixed by Proclamation for the purposes of this subsection.

(d)     The Federal Proceedings (Costs) Act 1981 was amended by Schedule 2 (item 57) and Schedule 5 (items 59-61) only of the Statute Law Revision Act 1996, subsections 2(1) and (2) of which provide as follows:

                 (1)   Subject to subsections (2) and (3), this Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

                 (2)   Each item in Schedule 2 commences or is taken to have commenced (as the case requires) at the time specified in the note at the end of the item.

Item 57 is taken to have commenced immediately after the commencement of Schedule 2 to the Law and Justice Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 1995.

The Law and Justice Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 1995 came into operation on 16 December 1995.

(e)     The Federal Proceedings (Costs) Act 1981 was amended by Schedule 13 only of the Federal Magistrates (Consequential Amendments) Act 1999, subsection 2(1) of which provides as follows:

                 (1)   Subject to this section, this Act commences on the commencement of the Federal Magistrates Act 1999.

(f)      The Federal Proceedings (Costs) Act 1981 was amended by Schedule 3 (item 185) only of the Corporations (Repeals, Consequentials and Transitionals) Act 2001, subsection 2(3) of which provides as follows:

                 (3)   Subject to subsections (4) to (10), Schedule 3 commences, or is taken to have commenced, at the same time as the Corporations Act 2001.

Table of Amendments

ad. = added or inserted     am. = amended     rep. = repealed      rs. = repealed and substituted
Provision affected	How affected
Title .....................................	am. No. 175, 1995
S. 3 .....................................	am. No. 65, 1985; No. 38, 1988; No. 104, 1992; No. 175, 1995; No. 194, 1999
S. 7A ..................................	ad. No. 65, 1985
S. 8 .....................................	am. No. 65, 1985
S. 9 .....................................	am. No. 194, 1999
S. 10 ...................................	am. No. 43, 1996; No. 194, 1999
S. 10A ................................	ad. No. 175, 1995
	am. No. 38, 2005
S. 11 ...................................	am. No. 65, 1985
S. 14 ...................................	am. No. 153, 1981; No. 55, 2001
S. 17 ...................................	am. No. 43, 1996
S. 18 ...................................	am. No. 91, 1983; No. 175, 1995
S. 20 ...................................	am. No. 43, 1996
S. 21 ...................................	am. No. 65, 1985
Schedule ............................	am. No. 175, 1995; No. 43, 1996

Table A

Application, saving or transitional provisions

Administrative Appeals Tribunal Amendment Act 2005 (No. 38, 2005)

Schedule 1

209  Transitional--subsection 10A(1) of the Federal Proceedings (Costs) Act 1981

Despite the amendment of subsection 10A(1) of the Federal Proceedings (Costs) Act 1981 made by this Schedule, that subsection continues to apply after the commencement of this item, in relation to a rehearing that began before the commencement of this item, as if that amendment had not been made.