New South Wales Repealed Acts

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ARBITRATION (CIVIL ACTIONS) ACT 1983 - SECT 16

16 Costs

(1) An arbitrator has the same powers in relation to costs in an action referred to the arbitrator under section 76B of the Supreme Court Act 1970 as the Supreme Court would have had if the hearing before the arbitrator had been a hearing before the Court.

(2) Division 9A of Part 3 of the District Court Act 1973 applies to and in respect of the costs in an action referred under section 63A of that Act in the same way as it would have applied if the action:

(a) had not been so referred, and

(b) had been determined in the same way as the award of the arbitrator,

a reference in that Division (section 148B (2) excepted) to the court being construed as a reference to the arbitrator.

(3) An arbitrator has the same powers in relation to costs in an action referred to the arbitrator under section 21H of the Local Courts (Civil Claims) Act 1970 , as the court by which the action was so referred would have had if the hearing before the arbitrator had been a hearing before that court.