Provided that such award and taxation shall be subject to review by
the commissioner.
(2)
16.
17.
The payment of any costs so awarded and taxed and, if reviewed, as
so reviewed, may be enforced in the same manner as if they were
costs awarded by a judge of the Transvaal Provincial Division of the
Supreme Court of South Africa in civil proceedings.
Exercise of discretionary power by registrar and commissioner.—
(1)
Whenever any discretionary power is conferred by this Act upon the
registrar or the commissioner, he shall not exercise that power
adversely to an applicant or an objector or other person who
according to the register appears to be an interested party, without (if
so required by the applicant or objector or other interested party within
a time fixed by the registrar or the commissioner, as the case may be)
giving that applicant or objector or interested party an opportunity of
being heard.
(2)
Whenever by this Act any time is specified within which any act or
thing is to be done, the registrar or the commissioner, as the case may
be, may, save where it is otherwise expressly provided, extend the
time either before or after its expiry.
General powers of commissioner.
(1)
Generally the commissioner shall in connection with any proceedings
before him have all such powers and jurisdiction as a single judge has
in a civil action before a provincial division of the Supreme Court of
South Africa having jurisdiction at the place where the proceedings
before the commissioner are held, including the appellate power
referred to in section 75.
(2)
(a)
(b)
(3)
18.
The commissioner may also order that any party to
proceedings before him shall furnish security to the satisfaction
of the commissioner in respect of any costs which may be
awarded against such party in those proceedings, and may
refuse, until such security has been furnished, to permit such
proceedings to be continued.
The commissioner may have regard to the prospects of
success or the bona fides of any such party in considering
whether such security should be furnished.
Any costs awarded by the commissioner shall be taxed by the
registrar according to the prescribed tariff and any such taxation shall
be subject to review by the commissioner, and payment of such costs
as so taxed or, if reviewed, as so reviewed, may be enforced in the
same manner as if they were costs allowed by the Transvaal
Provincial Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa in civil
proceedings.
Proceedings before commissioner.
(1)
Save as is otherwise provided in this Act, no tribunal other than the
commissioner shall have jurisdiction in the first instance to hear and