South Australian Consolidated Acts

VICTIMS OF CRIME ACT 2001 - SECT 25

25—Legal costs

        (1)         Despite any Act or law to the contrary—

            (a)         costs awarded in proceedings under this Act must not exceed the amount allowable under the prescribed scale (plus GST); and

            (b)         a legal practitioner must neither charge nor seek to recover in respect of proceedings under this Act an amount by way of costs in excess of the amount allowable under the prescribed scale (plus GST).

        (2)         The Governor may, by regulation, prescribe a scale of costs for the purposes of subsection (1).

        (3)         In this section—

"GST" means the tax payable under the GST law;

"GST law" means—

            (a)         A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 (Commonwealth); and

            (b)         the related legislation of the Commonwealth dealing with the imposition of a tax on the supply of goods, services and other things.