WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 269
WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 269
269 . Costs Committee, membership of
(1) In this section
—
Legal Costs Committee means the Legal Costs
Committee established under the Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act
2022 section 83.
(2) A committee called
the Costs Committee is established.
(3) The Costs
Committee is to be constituted by the following members —
(a) a
presiding member who is to be a member of WorkCover WA; and
(b) one
or more other members of WorkCover WA; and
(c) 2
members of the Legal Costs Committee nominated by the chairperson of that
Committee.
(4) The members are to
be appointed by WorkCover WA.
(5) If the chairperson
of the Legal Costs Committee fails to nominate a member under subsection
(3)(c) within 30 days after receiving a written request from WorkCover WA,
WorkCover WA may appoint a person as a member for the purposes of subsection
(3)(c) in place of a member of the Legal Costs Committee.
[Section 269 inserted: No. 42 of 2004 s. 130;
amended: No. 21 of 2008 s. 713(7); No. 9 of 2022 s. 418.]