WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 197
WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 197
197 . Interpreters and assistants
(1) Unless the
arbitrator directs otherwise, a party or a party’s representative may be
assisted in the course of a proceeding by an interpreter or another person
necessary or desirable to make the proceeding intelligible to that party and
to enable the party to communicate adequately.
(2) A person may
present a written submission or evidence in a language other than English if
it is accompanied by a translation into English and a statutory declaration by
the translator to the effect that the translation accurately reproduces in
English the contents of the original document.
[Section 197 inserted: No. 42 of 2004 s. 130.]