WORKERS COMPENSATION REGULATION 2003 - REG 97 Application by instructing practitioner or agent for assessment of practitioner/client or agent/client costs

This legislation has been repealed.

WORKERS COMPENSATION REGULATION 2003 - REG 97

97 Application by instructing practitioner or agent for assessment of practitioner/client or agent/client costs

(1) A legal practitioner or agent who:

(a) retains another legal practitioner or agent to act on behalf of the client, and

(b) is given a bill of costs in accordance with this Part by the other legal practitioner or agent,

may apply to the Registrar for an assessment of the whole, or any part of, so much of those costs as are payable on a practitioner and client basis or an agent and client basis.

(2) An application may not be made if there is a costs agreement between the client and the other legal practitioner or agent.

(3) An application is to be made within 30 days after the bill of costs is given and may be made even if the costs have been wholly or partly paid.