Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Subject to this
Act, the costs of and incidental to all proceedings to be determined by the
Commission, including any adjournment, shall be in the discretion of the
Commission, and the Commission has power to determine by whom, in what manner
and to what extent costs are to be paid.
(2) The costs may be
recovered in any manner in which costs payable in respect of proceedings of
the District Court may be recovered.
[(3) deleted]
(4) Costs and
expenses, to be payable by or to a party to the proceedings, may be awarded by
the Commission in respect of an objection whether the application to which the
objection relates is granted, refused or withdrawn, except that costs shall
not be awarded in relation to an objection made under section 73(1) by a
person authorised to intervene under section 69(6), (7), (8)
or (11).
(5) Where, in the
opinion of the Commission, a person has —
(a)
brought proceedings; or
(b)
exercised a right, or attempted to exercise a purported right, to object to an
application,
frivolously or
vexatiously, the Commission may award costs against that person.
(6) The Director does
not have power to award costs.
[Section 21 amended by No. 73 of 2006
s. 18 and 106.]