Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FEDERAL MAGISTRATES ACT 1999 - SECT 30

                   The Rules of Court may make provision for or in relation to the costs of dispute resolution processes and the assessment or taxation of those costs, where:

                     (a)  the dispute resolution process was carried out under an order made, or direction given, by the Federal Magistrates Court under this Act or another law of the Commonwealth; or

                     (b)  the dispute resolution process was carried out for the purpose of settling a dispute about a matter with respect to which proceedings have been instituted in the Federal Magistrates Court.