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MOTOR ACCIDENTS COMPENSATION ACT 1999 - SECT 71

Authority's access to police information

71 Authority's access to police information

(cf s 42A MAA)

(1) At the written request of the Authority with respect to a motor accident specified by it, the Commissioner of Police must provide a statement to the Authority in relation to the following matters if information as to those matters is held by a member of the NSW Police Force--
(a) the registration numbers of all motor vehicles involved in the accident,
(b) the names of all persons killed or injured in the accident,
(c) the names of the hospitals to which the injured persons were taken,
(d) the motor vehicle or vehicles most likely to have been at fault in the accident.
(2) The Authority is authorised to give a copy of a statement provided to it under this section to the next of kin of a person killed in the accident or to a person injured in the accident (or to an appropriate representative of either such person), or to an insurer.
(3) A statement or copy of a statement provided to or by the Authority under this section is not admissible in legal proceedings concerning a claim made under this Act.



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