Commonwealth Numbered Acts

FEDERAL PROCEEDINGS (COSTS) ACT 1981 No. 23 of 1981 - SECT 18

18. (1) In this section, "prescribed maximum amount", in relation to a court
specified in column 1 of the table in the Schedule, means the amount specified
in column 2 of that table opposite to that court or such higher amount as is
prescribed.

(2) The Attorney-General shall not authorize the payment under this Act in
respect of a costs certificate or costs certificates (other than a costs
certificate granted under sub-section 10 (2) or (3)) in relation to an appeal
or a sequence of appeals of an amount that, or amounts the sum of which,
exceeds the amount that is the prescribed maximum amount in relation to the
court that heard that appeal or the last of those appeals.

(3) For the purposes of this section, a costs certificate granted under
sub-section 8 (1) in respect of a new trial shall be deemed to be a costs
certificate in relation to the appeal in which the new trial was granted.

(4) A reference in this section to a court shall be read as a reference to
that court however constituted.