53Contributions Assessors

#### 53 Contributions Assessors 53 Contributions Assessors > > (1) The Secretary of the Department of Communities and Justice is to appoint a panel of legal practitioners to be Contributions Assessors for the purposes of this Division. > > > (2) A Contributions Assessor is entitled to remuneration in connection with the exercise of functions as a Contributions Assessor as the Secretary may determine from time to time. > > > (3) If, because of a failure by a first defendant to file an apportionment statement with the registrar, a matter has been referred to a Contributions Assessor, the Contributions Assessor is similarly entitled to remuneration in connection with the purported exercise of functions as a Contributions Assessor as the Secretary may determine from time to time. > > > (4) The amount of the remuneration of a Contributions Assessor is payable by the defendants in respect of whose liability to contribute the referral to the Contributions Assessor was made, and is payable by each in proportion to their determined shares of contribution. > > > (5) If there is a single claims manager for the claim, any remuneration of a Contributions Assessor that is payable by the defendants for whom the single claims manager acts is payable by the single claims manager, and any payment by the single claims manager is to be reimbursed as a disbursement in accordance with clause 66. > > > (6) If there is no single claims manager for the claim, the defendant whose determined share of contribution is greatest is required to pay to the Contributions Assessor the full amount of the Contributions Assessor’s remuneration and has a right of contribution against the other defendants concerned for their proportionate shares of that remuneration.