PERSONAL INJURIES PROCEEDINGS ACT 2002 - SECT 71B
Approach or contact for the purpose of making a claim
PERSONAL INJURIES PROCEEDINGS ACT 2002 - SECT 71B
Approach or contact for the purpose of making a claim
71B Approach or contact for the purpose of making a claim
(1) A person (the
"first person" ) must not personally approach or contact another person (the
"second person" ) and solicit or induce the second person to make a claim.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—300 penalty units.
(2) For subsection (1)
, a person personally approaches or contacts another person if the person
contacts the other person—
(a) whether in person or by mail, telephone,
email or another form of electronic communication; and
(b) whether the other
person is contacted individually or as a member of a class of persons.
(i) is a law practice or
lawyer that has been asked by a person on behalf of a community legal service
or industrial organisation (a
"representative" ) to approach or contact the second person; and
(a) the second person is entitled to
make the claim; or
(b) the second person had already decided to make, or had
made, the claim.
(5) In this section—
"consideration" means a fee or other benefit but does not include a gift,
other than money, or hospitality if the gift or hospitality has a value of
$200 or less.
"legal services" means work done, or business transacted, in the ordinary
course of legal practice.