LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 208R Rules of procedure for applications

This legislation has been repealed.

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 208R

208R Rules of procedure for applications

(1) There is to be a costs assessors' rules committee consisting of those costs assessors appointed to the committee by the Chief Justice of New South Wales.

(2) The committee is to regulate its own proceedings for the calling of meetings and the conduct of its business.

(3) The committee may make rules, not inconsistent with this Part, governing the practice and procedure of the assessment of costs, including matters relating to the appointment of costs assessors to particular matters and the interests of costs assessors in particular matters.

(4) The committee has any other functions conferred on the committee by or under this or any other Act.

(4A) Any amount payable from the Public Purpose Fund for the purpose of meeting the costs of the committee is to be paid, in accordance with section 69G, to the Treasurer for credit of the Consolidated Fund.

(5) Part 6 of the Interpretation Act 1987 applies to a rule made under this section in the same way as it applies to a statutory rule within the meaning of that Act.

Note: Part 6 of the Interpretation Act 1987 contains provisions relating to the publication and Parliamentary disallowance of statutory rules and other standard provisions relating to the making, amendment and repeal of statutory rules.