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        <txt break.before="1">This regulation may be cited as the <legref check="invalid" jurisd="QLD" type="subordleg"><name emphasis="yes">Uniform Civil Procedure (Fees) (Refund of Setting Down Fee and Hearing Fee) Amendment Regulation 2026</name></legref>.</txt>
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      <heading id="sec.3-he">Amendment of <legref check="invalid" jurisd="QLD" refid="sec.6" type="act">s 6</legref> (Refund of setting down fee and hearing fee)</heading>
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          <legref check="invalid" jurisd="QLD" refid="sec.6" type="act">Section 6</legref>—</txt>
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          <i>insert—</i>
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              <txt break.before="0">Also, a registrar must refund 75% of the setting down fee and hearing fee paid by a party to a proceeding if—</txt>
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                    <txt break.before="0">at least 10 business days before the first day set for the hearing or trial of the proceeding, the court, by order or direction, vacates the hearing or trial dates; and</txt>
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