Tasmanian Consolidated Acts Tasmanian Consolidated Acts
(1) A magistrate may, on the hearing of an application under section 15, award costs to any party to the application, and may assess the amount of those costs.
(2) Where costs are awarded by a magistrate pursuant to this section, those costs are recoverable in the same manner as to costs ordered to be paid to a complainant or defendant in a conviction or an order under the Justices Act 1959.
(3) In the application to costs awarded pursuant to this section of the provisions of the Justices Act 1959, any reference in those provisions to a justice, or to 2 or more justices, shall be construed as a reference to a magistrate.