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Power of Registrar to award costs and require security

Cap. 257, s. 8 · Revised Edition 2020

(1) The Minister may make Rules empowering the Registrar, in any proceedings before him under this Act, (a) to award any party such costs as he may consider reasonable; and (b) to direct how and by what parties they are to be paid. (2) An order of the Registrar made pursuant to subsection (1) of this section, may be enforced in the same way as an order of the Court. 13 (3) Provision may be made by the Rules empowering the Registrar, in appropriate cases, to require a party to proceedings before him to give security for costs, in relation to those proceedings on appeal, and as to the consequences if such security is not given. (4) Rules may make provisions as to the giving of evidence before the Registrar by affidavit or statutory declaration.
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