Small Claims Tribunal
[1986 Ed.
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(a) allow the appeal;
Procedure on appeal.
Stay of execution on appeal.
(b) dismiss the appeal; or
(c) remit the matter to the tribunal with such directions as it thinks fit, which may include a direction to the tribunal for a new hearing,
and may make such order as to costs as it thinks fit.
(Added, 79 of 1981, s. 10)
30. Subject to this Part, an appeal from the tribunal shall be brought in such manner and shall be subject to such conditions as may be prescribed.
31. The filing of an application for leave to appeal under section 28 or section 29A shall not operate as a stay of execution of an award or order unless the tribunal, the High Court or Court of Appeal, as the case may be, otherwise orders and any stay of execution may be subject to such conditions as to costs, payment into the tribunal, the giving of security or otherwise as the tribunal, the High Court or Court of Appeal thinks fit.
(Amended, 92 of 1975, s. 59 and 79 of 1981, s. 10)
Enforcement of award
of tribunal.
Setting aside
award or order given in absence of party.
Interest on awards.
PART VII
MISCELLANEOUS
32. An award of the tribunal may be enforced in the District Court in the same manner as a judgment of that court.
(Amended, 14 of 1986, s. 9)
32A. (1) Any award or order of the tribunal obtained where one party did not appear at the hearing may be set aside by the tribunal, on the application of that party, on such terms as it thinks just.
(2) An application under subsection (1) shall be made within 7 days after the hearing or such further period as the tribunal may allow. (Amended, 49 of 1979, s. 4)
(Added, 67 of 1977, s. 5)
33. (1) The tribunal may include in the amount of an award interest at the rate specified in subsection (4) on the whole or any part of the sum claimed for the whole or any part of the period between the date when the cause of action arose and the date of the award. (Amended, 14 of 1986, s. 10)
(2) The powers conferred by subsection (1) may be exercised- (a) whether or not interest is expressly claimed;
(b) at any time after the date of the award if it appears to the tribunal that the failure to claim or to award interest was through inadvertence; and
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