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406 Costs on appeal to County Court or the Court of Appeal under section 254

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(1)If—

S. 406(1) amended by No. 3/2016 s. 83(2)(b).

(a)an appeal under section 254 is struck out or dismissed; and

(b)the County Court or the Court of Appeal, as the case requires, is satisfied that the appeal was brought vexatiously or frivolously or in abuse of process—

S. 406(1)(b) amended by Nos 3/2016 s. 83(2)(a), 1/2022 s. 76(2).S. 406(3)(b) amended by No. 3/2016 s. 83(4)(b).

the court may order that the appellant pay all or a specified portion of the respondent's costs of the appeal.

(2)Nothing in subsection (1) limits any discretion as to costs of an appeal conferred on the County Court or the Supreme Court, as the case requires, by any other provision of this Act or the County Court Act 1958 or the Supreme Court Act 1986, as the case requires.

S. 406(2) amended by No. 3/2016 s. 83(3).

(3)If the County Court or the Supreme Court, as the case requires, is satisfied that—

S. 406(3) amended by No. 3/2016 s. 83(4)(a)(c).

(a)a copy of a notice of appeal under section 254 or 257 was served on the respondent; and

(b)the appeal was not afterwards prosecuted or the court has no jurisdiction to hear and determine the appeal—

the court may order that the appellant pay to the respondent any costs that it thinks reasonable.

(4)If an appellant under section 254—

S. 406(4) amended by No. 3/2016 s. 83(5).

(a)breaches an undertaking referred to in section 255(5); or

(b)abandons an appeal—

the court may order that the appellant pay any costs incurred as a result of the breach or abandonment.