Code of Organization and Civll Procedure (Schedule A)

L.N. I of 2000

CODE OF ORGANIZATION AND CIVIL PROCEDURE

(CAP. 12)

Code of Organization and Civll Procedure (Schedule A)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2000

IN exercise of the powers conferred by section 1004 of the Code

of Organization and Civil Procedure, the Minister of Justice and Local

Councils, with the concurrence of the Minister of Finance, has made

the following regulations :-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Code of Organization

and Civil Procedure (Schedule A) (Amendment) Regulations, 2000 and·

shall be read and construed as one with Schedule A annexed to the

Code of Organization and Civil Procedure, hereinafter referred to as

"Schedule A".

.

(2) These regulations shall be deemed to have come into

force on the 1st January, 2000.

Tariff K of Schedule A shall be amended as follows:-

(a) at the end of subparagraph (d) of paragraph IS thereof,

there shall be added the following new paragraph

Lmcm

"(e)

Costs in connection with Court

duties

(i) Transportation costs to a site

inspection

.

00,0

Typing and printing minutes

(ii)

in the records of a case, per A4 sheet, for

0.30,0

the first copy thereof

.

0.10,0

and for each additional copy thereof ...

(iii) For the issue of each notice

of a sitting or site inspection to lawyers

0.50,0";

and parties

.

(b) paragraphs 16 and 17 shall be renumbered as paragraphs

18 and 19 thereof; and

(c) immediately after paragraph 15 there shall be inserted

the following new paragraphs:-

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"16. Fees taxable to Architects and

Civil Engineers who are appointed as Court

Referees for each opinion dealt with in the

report shall be up to a maximum of Lm50 for

each legal point decided. Any calculation or

computation of an amount to be awarded as

damages or compensation by the Courts shall

be deemed to be an opinion, and the maximum

fee taxable for such an opinion shall be Lml00.

The criterion shall be that ofthe work involved

and never the amount assessed by the Court

Referee

Provided that there shall be paid a fee to

an architect or civil engineer appo1nted as a

Court Referee as follows

(a)

For each sitting held,

for the first hour or part

(i)

thereof

.

00,0

for each additional hour or part

(ii)

thereof.

.

10.00,0

(b)

For each site inspection held,

for the first hour or part

(i)

thereof

.

50,0

for each additional hour or part

(ii)

thereof

.

10.00,0

Architects and civil engineers,

when ordered by a Court or required by a client

to appear before any Judicial Assistant,

Supplementary Judge or a Court referee, or

for a site inspection, shall be entitled to the

following fees

l

Lmcm

(a)

for the first hour or part thereof

15.00,0

for each additional hour or part

(b)

thereof

.

13.50,0".