New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WORKERS COMPENSATION COMMISSION RULES 2006 - REG 12.1

12.1 Definitions

(1) In this Part:
"document" does not include a document that must be provided to a requesting party by a worker, employer or insurer in respect of a claim for compensation, whether upon request or otherwise, under the Workers Compensation Acts, the Workers Compensation Regulation 2003 or any related WorkCover Guidelines, except where the worker, employer or insurer has failed to provide the document as and when required under any such provision.
"party to proceedings" includes the insurer of an employer.
"parties" means the requesting party and the producer.
"producer" means a party to proceedings named or proposed to be named in a notice for production.
"requesting party" means a party to proceedings who intends serving or has served a notice for production on a producer.

(2) For the purposes of this Part, a document is taken to be relevant to a fact in issue if it could, or contains material that could, rationally affect the assessment of the probability of the existence of that fact (otherwise than by relating solely to the credibility of a witness), regardless of whether the document would be admissible in evidence.