New South Wales Consolidated Acts

VICTIMS SUPPORT AND REHABILITATION ACT 1996 - SECT 65

65 Guidelines and arrangements relating to compensation assessors

(1) The Tribunal may issue guidelines, consistent with this Act and the rules, to compensation assessors with respect to the determination of applications for statutory compensation. Compensation assessors must have regard to those guidelines in the exercise of their functions under this Act.

(2) The Director is (subject to this Act) responsible for making arrangements for the work of compensation assessors (including the allocation of matters to particular assessors).

(3) The Director, the appropriate Department Head or any other public servant may not direct, overrule or interfere with the determination of a compensation assessor on a matter allocated to the assessor. However, the Director may, at any time before its determination, re-allocate the matter to another compensation assessor.

(4) This section does not affect the exercise of functions of the appropriate Department Head under the Public Sector Management Act 1988 with respect to compensation assessors.