(1) If the respondent
disputes any matter in an eligibility assessment report, the court must not
take the disputed matter into consideration when determining the proceeding
unless it is satisfied, on the balance of probabilities, that the matter is
true.
(2) The court must
not, without the respondent’s consent, take into consideration an
eligibility assessment report, or part of such a report, when determining the
proceeding if —
(a) the
respondent disputes all or part of the report; and
(b) the
eligibility assessor who gave the report to the court does not attend the
hearing of the proceeding despite having been required to attend under
section 10Q.
[Section 10R inserted: No. 49 of 2016 s. 14.]