Exported Live Stock (Insurance) Act, 1940

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Committee of assessors.

20.—(1) Every claim for compensation under this Act in respect of cattle or sheep shall be referred by the Board to, and shall be investigated by, a committee of assessors consisting of three persons who shall, if and so far as qualified members of the Board are available, be members of the Board and be appointed by the Board and shall, if or so far as such members are not available, be persons engaged in the cattle trade or the sheep trade and be appointed on the request of the Board by the National Executive, but no such committee of assessors shall include a member of the Board who is engaged in the pig trade.

(2) Every claim for compensation under this Act in respect of pigs shall be referred by the Board to, and shall be investigated by, a committee of assessors consisting of three persons who shall, if and so far as qualified members of the Board are available, be members of the Board who are engaged in the pig trade and be appointed to such committee by the Board and shall, so far as such members are not available, be persons engaged in the pig trade and be appointed by the National Executive on the request of the Board.

(3) A person who has a pecuniary interest in a claim for compensation under this Act shall be disqualified from being a member of the committee of assessors investigating such claim.

(4) Committees of assessors for the purposes of this section shall be appointed by the Board or the National Executive on the request of the Board (as may be requisite) as and when occasion requires or the Board consider such appointment desirable.