COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION ACT 2010 - SECT 33C Application of legal costs legislation

COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION ACT 2010 - SECT 33C

33C Application of legal costs legislation

(1) For the purposes of section 33B (5), the costs of an arbitration are to be assessed in accordance with the legal costs legislation (as defined in section 3A of the Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2014 ).

(2) The legal costs legislation applies accordingly with any necessary modifications. Part 7 of the Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2014 so applies as if the costs of the arbitration were ordered costs as defined in that Part.

Note : There is no equivalent to this section in the Model Law.