WORKERS COMPENSATION REGULATION 2003 - REG 107 Costs agreements not subject to assessment

This legislation has been repealed.

WORKERS COMPENSATION REGULATION 2003 - REG 107

107 Costs agreements not subject to assessment

(1) The Registrar is to decline to assess a bill of costs if:

(a) the disputed costs are subject to a costs agreement that complies with Division 3 of Part 11 of the Legal Profession Act 1987 , and

(b) the costs agreement specifies the amount of the costs or the dispute relates only to the rate specified in the agreement for calculating the costs.

(2) If the dispute relates to any other matter, costs are to be assessed on the basis of that specified rate despite clause 105. The Registrar is bound by a provision for the payment of a premium that is not determined to be unjust under clause 108.

(3) This clause does not apply to any provision of a costs agreement that the Registrar determines to be unjust under clause 108.

(4) This clause does not apply to a costs agreement applicable to the costs of legal services if a legal practitioner failed to make a disclosure in accordance with Division 2 of Part 11 of the Legal Profession Act 1987 of the matters required to be disclosed by section 175 or 176 of that Act in relation to those costs.