New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WORKERS COMPENSATION COMMISSION RULES 2006 - REG 5.2

5.2 Users of the system

(1) Subject to any protocol established under subrule (2), and to any order of the Registrar, a person may not use the ECM system for particular proceedings unless the person is:

(a) a party to the proceedings, or

(b) a legal practitioner representing a party to the proceedings, or

(c) a person authorised to use the ECM system in relation to the proceedings by a legal practitioner representing a party to the proceedings.

(2) The President may establish a protocol for the use of the ECM system, either generally or for particular proceedings.

(3) Such a protocol may provide for public access to information held by the Commission in respect of any proceedings or proceedings generally, but not to the contents of any document held by the Commission in respect of any proceedings.

(4) Subject to subrule (3), such a protocol may provide for the specification of the level of access to the system to which persons generally or persons of specified classes are entitled and the conditions of use of the system applicable to persons generally or persons of any such class.

(5) In relation to any proceedings, the level of access to the ECM system to which a user is entitled, and the conditions of use applicable to a user, are subject to any order of the Registrar.