Commonwealth Numbered Acts

FEDERAL PROCEEDINGS (COSTS) ACT 1981 No. 23 of 1981 - SECT 14

14. (1) A court is not empowered by this Act to grant a costs certificate to -

   (a)  the Commonwealth;

   (b)  a State;

   (c)  the Northern Territory;

   (d)  a person suing, or being sued, on behalf of the Commonwealth, of any
        State or of the Northern Territory;

   (e)  an authority of the Commonwealth, of any State or of any Territory
        (including the Northern Territory and Norfolk Island);

   (f)  a body corporate that has a paid-up capital of $200,000 or more; or

   (g)  a body corporate that is not a body corporate referred to in paragraph
        (f) but is related to such a body corporate.

(2) For the purposes of sub-section (1), the question whether bodies corporate
are related to each other shall be determined in the same manner as the
question whether corporations, within the meaning of the Companies Ordinance
1962 of the Australian Capital Territory, are related to each other would be
determined under that Ordinance.