Land Acquisition Regulations 2019

The Authority must cover the costs of convening a settlement conference under section 23BA of the Act, including the costs of engaging the conference coordinator.

For the purposes of section 23BA(2)(b) of the Act, a conference coordinator must be qualified as a legal practitioner and be of at least 7 years standing (taking into account, for that purpose, periods of legal practice and judicial service within and outside the

For the purposes of section 23BA(4) of the Act, the reasonable costs of the claimant will be taken to be the professional costs reasonably incurred by the claimant in preparing for, or in the course of, a settlement conference, not exceeding—

in the case of legal costs—the applicable scale of costs (if any) of a court or tribunal of this State; and

in the case of costs relating to the services of a valuer, or other professional costs—the generally accepted industry rate (if any) applicable to such services.