54   Costs

(cf Act No 43 1983, section 16)

(1)  An arbitrator may make orders with respect to the payment, as between the parties, of the costs of referred proceedings.

(2)  An arbitrator has the same powers in relation to an order for costs under subsection (1) as the referring court would have had if the hearing before the arbitrator had been a hearing before the court.

(3)  This section does not limit the power of the referring court to make orders under section 98 with respect to the costs of referred proceedings.