Section 18
Costs of adjudication proceedings
of Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act 2012
ActIn forceProvision 18 of 41
Section 18
(1)
The adjudicator, in making the adjudication decision in relation to costs of the adjudication proceedings shall order the costs to follow the event and shall fix the quantum of costs to be paid.
(2)
Subsection (1) shall prevail over any agreement made by the parties prior to the commencement of the adjudication proceedings by which one party agrees to pay the other party’s costs or bear the adjudicator’s fees and expenses.