Registered Designs Act 2000 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Administrative and Other Supplementary Provisions
56. Costs in proceedings before Registrar
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The Registrar may, in proceedings before the Registrar under this Act, by order award to any party such costs as the Registrar may consider reasonable and direct how and by what parties they are to be paid.
Registrar
“Registrar” means the Registrar of Designs referred to in section 49 and includes any Deputy Registrar of Designs referred to in that section;
The rules may provide for the assessment of the costs, or any part thereof, by the Registrar.
A party desirous to obtain costs or to have the costs assessed must apply to the Registrar in accordance with the rules.
If a party is ordered to pay the costs of another party, the costs may be recovered in a court of competent jurisdiction as a debt due by the first party to the other party.