Victorian Numbered Acts

CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES AMENDMENT ACT 2013 (NO. 52 OF 2013) - SECT 54

After section 528 of the Principal Act insert —

        " 528A     Enforcement of costs orders made in the Family Division

    (1)     In this section—

"appropriate court" means a court that has jurisdiction to enforce an amount of costs equivalent to that required to be paid under an order for costs;

"order for costs" means an order for costs made by the Court—

        (a)     in proceedings in the Family Division; or

        (b)     under section 154 of the Family Violence Protection Act 2008 ; or

        (c)     under section 111 of the Personal Safety Intervention Orders Act 2010 .

    (2)     A person in whose favour an order for costs is made may enforce the order by filing in the appropriate court     a copy of the order certified by the principal registrar of the Court to be a true copy.

    (3)     On filing, the order must be taken to be an order of the appropriate court for payment of costs and may be enforced accordingly.".