WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 274

WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 274

274 .         Effect of costs determinations

        (1)         A legal practitioner is not entitled to be paid or recover for a legal service or other matter an amount that exceeds any maximum costs fixed for the service or matter by a costs determination.

        (2)         An agent is not entitled to be paid or recover for an agent service or other matter an amount that exceeds any maximum costs fixed for the service or matter by a costs determination.

        (3)         This section does not entitle a legal practitioner or agent to recover costs for a legal service or matter that a dispute resolution authority determines were unreasonably incurred.

        [Section 274 inserted: No. 42 of 2004 s. 130.]