AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

AMENDMENT OF THE WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION RULES

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 12 of 1968

	The amendment –

(a)	brings the scale of solicitor’s costs in workmen’s compensation cases in line with the scale of costs applying in other jurisdictions of the Court of Petty Sessions, and

(b)	in workmen’s compensation cases involving amounts normally beyond the limit of the jurisdiction of the Court of Petty Sessions, makes a commensurate increase in the scale of solicitor’s costs.