Costs
78 Costs
The
Court may make orders for costs as it thinks just (including an order for costs in favour of or against a council that has been joined as a party to the proceedings or that has intervened in the proceedings).
If an election is declared void, or a candidate returned as elected is declared not to have been duly elected, on account of an act or omission of an electoral officer, any costs in favour of the petitioner must, to the extent to which they are attributable to that act or omission, be awarded against the council.
An order under this section may be enforced as an order of the District
Court.
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