64.2 Definitions and application
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(1) In this Part and in Part 65, unless the context otherwise requires —
“assessed costs” and “assessment” have the meanings given them by rules 65.11 and 65.12;
“budgeted costs” has the meaning given it by rule 65.8;
“costs” include a legal practitioner's charges and disbursements, fixed costs, prescribed costs, budgeted costs or assessed costs;
“fixed costs” has the meaning given it by rule 65.4; and
“prescribed costs” has the meaning given it by rule 65.5.
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(2) If costs of —
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(a) a legal practitioner to his or her client;
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(b) arbitration proceedings; or
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(c) proceedings before a tribunal or other statutory body,
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are to be taxed or assessed by the court, they must be assessed in accordance with rule 65.12.
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(3) If in any enactment there is a reference to the taxation of any costs this is to be construed as referring to the assessment of such costs in accordance with rule 65.12, unless the enactment otherwise provides.