WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 271

WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 271

271 .         Determinations as to maximum costs

        (1)         The Costs Committee may make a determination —

            (a)         fixing maximum costs for legal services and agent services;

            (b)         fixing maximum costs for matters that are not legal services or agent services but are related to a claim for compensation (for example, expenses for witnesses or medical reports).

        (2)         A provision of the determination —

            (a)         may authorise any matter or thing to be determined, applied or regulated by a specified person or body;

            (b)         may fix a cost or amount by reference to a cost or amount fixed by a legal costs determination made under the Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2022 section 133.

        (3)         The power under this section to make a determination for services or matters includes power to make a determination that no amount is recoverable for a particular service or matter or class of services or matters, with the result that a legal practitioner or agent is not entitled to be paid or recover any amount for the service or matter concerned.

        (4)         A costs determination may be amended or revoked by a subsequent costs determination.

        [Section 271 inserted: No. 42 of 2004 s. 130; amended: No. 21 of 2008 s. 713(8); No. 9 of 2022 s. 419.]