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COMMUNITY DISPUTES RESOLUTION
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(e) the manner in and the time within which an application or a claim may be heard, and the circumstances and manner in which claims may be heard together;
(f) the withdrawal and amendment of claims;
(g) the summoning of witnesses and the payment of witnesses from public funds or otherwise;
(h) the means by which particular facts may be proved, and the mode in which evidence of such facts may be given, in any proceedings or on any application in connection with or at any stage of any proceedings;
(i) the commission of offences by, and the punishment of, persons who refuse to give evidence or obey a summons to witness;
(j) the transfer of proceedings from a tribunal to a court;
(k) to regulate the joinder of parties and to prescribe in what cases persons absent, but having an interest in the claim, are to be bound by any order made in that claim, and the circumstances in which orders may be made for the representation of absent persons by one or more parties to a cause or matter;
(l) the circumstances in which a decision, a direction or an order of the Registrar or a tribunal may be set aside and the procedure for setting aside such decisions, directions or orders;
(m) the circumstances in which a decision, a direction or an order of the Registrar may be appealed against and the procedure for appeals from the Registrar to a tribunal and from a tribunal to the High Court;
(n) the scales of allowances, costs and fees to be taken or paid to any party or witness in any proceedings in a tribunal or before the Registrar, the fees to be charged in respect of anything done or any service rendered under or by virtue of this Act, the circumstances in which costs may be awarded in any proceedings in a tribunal or before the Registrar and for