Local Court (Civil Jurisdiction) Rules 1998

(1) Where a defendant makes a contribution claim, a party to the contribution claim may serve on any other party to the contribution claim an offer to contribute toward a compromise of the plaintiff's claim on the terms specified in the offer.

(2) The Court may take an offer to contribute into account in determining whether to make an order that the party on whom the offer to contribute was served should pay the whole or part of:

(b) the costs that the party who made the offer is liable to pay to the plaintiff.

(3) Rules 20.04 and 20.05 apply with the necessary changes to an offer to contribute as if it were an offer of compromise.