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SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COIIIIUNITY
As regards such agents, representatives and advisers who appear before it, the Tribunal
shall have the powers normally accorded to courts of law, under conditions laid down
in the rules of procedure.
ARTICLE 28
INTERIM MEASURES
The Tribunal or the President may, on good cause, order the suspension of an act challenged
before the Tribunal and may take other interim measures as necessary.
ARTICLE29
LEGAL COSTS
Unless the Tribunal decides otherwise, each party to a dispute shall pay its, his, or her own
legal costs.
ARTICLE30
APPLICATION TO BE JOINED AS A PARTY
Should a State, natural or legal person consider that it or he or she has an interest of a legal
nature that may affect or be affected by the subject matter of a dispute before the Tribunal, it
or he or she may submit by way of a written application in such a form and manner as the
rules of procedure may prescribe a request to be permitted to intervene.
ARTICLE 31
FEES AND LEGAL AID
Fees payable by parties other than States and the granting of legal aid, within limits agreed by
the budgetary authorities of the Community, may be prescribed by the rules.
ARTICLE32
ENFORCEMENT AND EXECUTION
1.
The law and rules of civil procedure for the registration and enforcement of foreign
judgements in force in the territory of the State in which the judgement is to be
enforced shall govern enforcement.
2.
States and institutions of the Community shall take forthwith all measures necessary to
ensure execution of decisions of the Tribunal.
3.
Decisions of the Tribunal shall be binding upon the parties to the dispute in respect of
that particular case and enforceable within the territories of the States concerned.
4.
Any failure by a State to comply with a decision of the Tribunal may be referred to the
Tribunal by any party concerned.
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