# The Water Industry Designated Codes (Appeals to the Competition and Markets Authority) Regulations 2017, Regulation 19: Costs


(1) A CMA group that determines an appeal must make an order requiring the payment to the CMA of the costs incurred by the CMA in connection with the appeal.
(2) Where the appeal is allowed, the order must require those costs to be paid by the Authority.
(3) Where the appeal is dismissed, the order must require those costs to be paid by the appellant; but if there is more than one appellant the order may specify that one or more of the appellants is to pay those costs, in such proportions as specified in the order.
(4) The CMA group that determines an appeal may make an order requiring a party to the appeal to pay the costs of another party to the appeal incurred in connection with the appeal.
(5) A person required by an order under this regulation to pay a sum to another person must comply with the order within the period of 28 days beginning with the day after the day on which the order is made.
(6) Any unpaid balance remaining after the period mentioned in paragraph (5) expires accrues interest at such rate as may be determined in accordance with provision contained in the order.
(7) Any costs payable by virtue of an order under this regulation and any interest that has not been paid may be recovered as a civil debt by the person in whose favour that order is made.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2017/9780111153871/regulation/19 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-water-industry-designated-codes-appeals-to-the-competition-and-markets-authority-regulations-2017/regulation-19
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