Motor Accidents (Compensation) Appeal Tribunal Rules 1986

Subject to these Rules and the Act, the costs of and incidental to a reference to and a proceeding before the Tribunal shall be at the discretion of the Tribunal.

Costs shall follow the event, unless the Tribunal otherwise orders.

In making an order as to costs, the Tribunal may make such further orders as are necessary to give effect to its order, including, but not limited to, an order:

that costs be taxed before the Registrar and the procedures to be followed in taxing costs;

specifying the scale of costs to apply;

fixing a lump sum amount of costs; or

that a party pay the costs of a witness required to attend before the Tribunal.

Where it appears to the Tribunal that costs have been improperly, or without reasonable cause, incurred, or there has been a failure, without reasonable excuse, to comply with these Rules or an order of the Tribunal made pursuant to these Rules, the Tribunal may penalize the party at fault by making such order as to costs as it thinks fit.

Where the Tribunal orders a party to pay costs to another party, that other party may recover those costs as if the order were a judgment for the payment of money given by the Supreme Court.