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transferred) at any time otherwise orders, to be stayed until the proceedings transferred to that court have been concluded.

Costs in transferred cases

21. Where the whole or any part of the proceedings are transferred pursuant to an order of court under section 20(2)(a) or (b)—

(a) the costs of the proceedings which are transferred (both before and after the transfer) are, subject to any order made by the court which ordered the transfer, to be in the discretion of the court to which those proceedings are transferred; and
(b) the court to which those proceedings are transferred may make orders with respect to the costs and as to the scales on which the costs of the several parts of those proceedings are to be paid.

Division 2—Proceedings before tribunal

Sittings in camera, etc.

22.—(1) Subject to subsection (2), all matters and proceedings in a tribunal are to be heard in camera.

(2) A tribunal has the power to hear any matter or part of a matter in an open and public manner to which the public generally may have access, if the tribunal is satisfied that it is expedient in the interests of justice, or for other sufficient reason to do so.

(3) A tribunal may, in any matter or proceeding or any part of it which is tried or held or to be tried or held before the tribunal, if satisfied that it is expedient in the interests of justice, public safety, public security or propriety, or for other sufficient reason to do so, order that any of the following, which is contained in any tribunal document or intended to be produced before the tribunal, be removed or be sufficiently redacted:

(a) the name, address or photograph of any witness in that matter or proceeding;