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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lands-tribunal-rules-1996/article-52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lands-tribunal-rules-1996/article-52.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1022",
  "legislation_title": "The Lands Tribunal Rules 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lands-tribunal-rules-1996",
  "path": "article/52",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "Costs",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of section 4 of the 1961 Act and of rule 28(11), the costs of and incidental to any proceedings shall be in the discretion of the Tribunal.\n(2) The registrar may make an order as to costs in respect of any application or proceedings heard by him.\n(3) A person dissatisfied with the order of the registrar under paragraph (2) may, within 10 days of the order, appeal to the President who may make such order as to the payment of costs, including the costs of the appeal, as he thinks fit.\n(4) If the Tribunal directs that the costs of a party to the proceedings be paid by another party it may settle the amount of costs by fixing a lump sum or direct that the costs be taxed by the registrar on such basis as the Tribunal thinks fit, being a basis that would be applied on a taxation of the costs of High Court or county court proceedings.\n(5) A party dissatisfied with a taxation of costs under paragraph (4) may, within 7 days of the taxation, serve on any other interested party and on the registrar written objection specifying the items objected to and applying for the taxation to be reviewed in respect of those items.\n(6) Upon such application the registrar shall review the taxation of the items objected to and shall state in writing the reasons for his decision.\n(7) A person dissatisfied with the decision of the registrar under paragraph (6) may, within 10 days of the decision, apply to the President to review the taxation and the President may make such order as he thinks fit including an order as to payment of the costs of the review.\n(8) Paragraphs (8) and (10) of rule 38 shall apply to any application under this rule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am (transtl savings) (pt prosp)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/2945",
      "affecting_title": "The Lands Tribunal (Amendment) Rules 2003"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1022/article/52",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}