Skip to main content
Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 1 June 2004 - onwards
Version 2 of 2

44. Expenses incurred by claimant.

(1) Without prejudice to section 45, on an assessment having been made the Board may include in the notice it serves under section 30 in relation to the assessment the following statement.

(2) That statement (“the statement”) is one to the effect that the Board will direct, if the assessment is accepted by the claimant and accepted or deemed to be accepted by the respondent or one or more of the respondents, that the respondent or respondents who accept or are deemed to have accepted the assessment shall pay to the claimant, in addition to the amount of the assessment, a specified amount, being the whole or part, as the Board, in its discretion, determines, of the amount of the following fees or expenses of the claimant.

(3) Those fees or expenses are fees or expenses that, in the opinion of the Board, have been reasonably and necessarily incurred by the claimant in complying with the provisions of this Part or any rules under section 46 in relation to his or her relevant claim.