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PERSONAL INJURIES PROCEEDINGS ACT 2002 - SECT 17
Contributor’s response
17 Contributor’s response
(1) A contributor must, within the period prescribed under a regulation or, if
no period is prescribed, within 1 month after receiving a contribution notice,
give the respondent who gave the contribution notice a written response (
"contributor’s response" )— (a) containing a statement of information
prescribed under a regulation; and
(b) accompanied by any documents that may
be prescribed under a regulation.
(2) The contributor’s response must also
state— (a) whether the claim for the contribution or indemnity claimed in
the contribution notice is admitted, denied or admitted in part; and
(b) if
the claim for the contribution or indemnity is admitted in part, the extent to
which it is admitted.
(3) An admission of liability in the contributor’s
response— (a) is not binding on the contributor in relation to any other
claim; and
(b) is not binding on the contributor at all if it later appears
the admission was induced by fraud.
(4) If the respondent requires
information provided by a contributor under this section to be verified by
statutory declaration, the contributor must verify the information by
statutory declaration.
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