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Motor Vehicle Sales Act 2003

Enforcement - Banning - Ban ordered by court

71: District Court may order payment of costs

You could also call this:

"The District Court can order someone to pay you back for court costs."

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You can go to the District Court if you need to sort out a problem with a ban ordered by the court. The court can decide you get back some of the money you spent on the case. The court will say how much money you get and who pays it. You can get the money the court says you should get from the other person in the case. This is like getting back a debt that the other person owes you. The court's decision is what decides who pays the money.

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Banning: Ban ordered by court

71District Court may order payment of costs

  1. In any proceedings under section 69, the District Court may,—

  2. by order, award to any party costs that the court considers reasonable; and
    1. direct how and to which parties the costs must be paid.

      1. A party in whose favour an order under subsection (1) has been made may recover the costs awarded by the District Court as a debt by the party against whom the order has been made.