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Awarding of costs and requiring security

Protection Of New Plant Varieties Regulations, reg. 10 · Revised Edition 2020

(1) The Registrar or the Court mayAwarding costs (a) award any party such costs as he or it considers reasonable; and (b) direct how and by what parties they are to be paid. (2) An order of the Registrar made pursuant to subregulation (1) may be enforced in the same way as an order of the Court. (3) The Registrar may, in appropriate cases, require a party to proceedings before him to give security for costs, and the consequences if such security is not given may be stated in Regulations made under this Act. (4) For the purposes of this regulation, the word “costs” includes– (a) remuneration by way of allowances, for the services of an expert witness; and (b) payment of travelling allowances of an expert witness, in respect of time spent travelling in connection with undertaking such services, in relation to proceedings before the Registrar or before the Court.
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