List of SIRA publications
Use this page to find publications by scheme.
Workers compensation publications
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- A quick guide to workers compensation - information for workers
- Allied health recovery request (AHRR) technical help
- Allied health recovery request (AHRR) instructions for completion - PDF
- Appendix A insurance premiums orders 2015-2016
- Application for a new specialised insurer licence: requirements
- Application for approval of specialised insurer outsourcing arrangements: requirements
- Application to renew specialised insurer licence: requirements
- Audit improvement plan template
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- Becoming an assessor of permanent impairment
- Better relationships, better outcomes - tips for insurer case managers
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- Cessation of medical, hospital and rehabilitation expenses (Section 59A): Information for health providers
- Claims management guide - an easy to use, ‘one stop shop’ for workers compensation claims management information.
- Claims technical manual - refer to 'Insurer data reporting requirements'
- Community connect program guidance material
- Consultation summary: public consultation draft workers compensation regulation 2016 (July 2016)
- Cross border arrangements for workers compensation guide
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- Deemed premium calculation methodology
- Decision notice summary
- Doctors and SIRA - your nominated treating doctor
- Dust diseases contributions 2019-2020
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Fees and rates orders 2019
- Fees Order 2019 - Accredited Exercise Physiology
- Fees Order 2019 - Hearing Aid
- Fees Order 2019 -Private Hospital Fee Order
- Fees Order 2019 - Independent Consultant
- Fees Order 2019 - Injury Management Consultant
- Fees Order 2019 - Massage Therapy
- Fees Order 2019 - Medical Examinations and Reports, No. 2
- Fees Order 2019 - Medical Examinations and Reports
- Fees Order 2019 - Medical Practitioners
- SIRA 2019 workers compensation rates for general practitioners
- Fees Order 2019 - Orthopaedic Surgeon
- Fees Order 2019 - Physiotherapy, Chiropractic and Osteopathy
- Fees Order 2019 - Psychology and Counselling
- Fees Order 2019 - Surgeon Fees Order
- 2019 Private Hospital Fees Schedule
- 2019 Public Hospital Fees Schedule
- Workers compensation (public hospital rates) order 2019
Fees and rates orders 2018
- Ambulance fees schedule 2018
- Fees order 2018 - accredited exercise physiology
- Fees order 2018 - hearing aids
- Fees order 2018 - independent consultants
- Fees order 2018 - injury management consultants
- Fees order 2018 - massage therapy
- Fees order 2018 - medical examinations and reports
- Fees order 2018 - medical practitioner
- Fees order 2018 - orthopaedic surgeon
- Fees order 2018 - physiotherapy, chiropractic and osteopathy
- Fees order 2018 - psychology and counselling
- Fees order 2018 - surgeon
- Public hospital fees schedule 2018
- Private hospital fees schedule 2018
- SIRA rates for general practitioners 2018
- Workers compensation (private hospital rates) order 2018
- Workers compensation (public hospital rates) order 2018
- Workers compensation (ambulance services fees) order 2018
Fees and rates orders 2017
- Fees order 2017 - accredited exercise physiology
- Fees order 2017 - hearing aids
- Fees order 2017 - independent consultants
- Fees order 2017 - injury management consultants
- Fees order 2017 - massage therapy
- Fees order 2017 - medical examinations and reports
- Fees order 2017 - medical practitioner
- Fees order 2017 - orthopaedic surgeon
- Fees order 2017 - physiotherapy, chiropractic and osteopathy
- Fees order 2017 - psychology and counselling
- Fees order 2017 - surgeon
- SIRA rates for general practitioners 2017
- Workers compensation (ambulance services fees) order 2017
- Workers compensation (ambulance services fees) order 2017 no2
- Workers compensation (private hospital rates) order 2017
- Workers compensation (public hospital rates) order 2017
- Workers compensation (public hospital rates) order 2017 no2
- Workers compensation rates for general practitioners 2017
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- Group self-insurer standard licence conditions
- Guideline for approval of treating allied health practitioners 2016 no2
- Guidelines for claiming workers compensation 2016
- Guidelines for the evaluation of permanent impairment - summary of changes from 3rd to 4th edition
- Guidelines for workplace return to work programs
- Guidelines on injury management consultants
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- Identifying personal and environmental risk factors with FACTORWEB
- If you get injured at work poster
- If you get injured at work poster - Arabic
- If you get injured at work poster - Chinese (simplified)
- If you get injured at work poster - Chinese (traditional)
- If you get injured at work poster - Korean
- If you get injured at work poster - Vietnamese
- Independent medical examinations and reports: guidelines (March 2012)
- Independent medical examinations fact sheet
- Information for medical practitioners completing the SIRA certificate of capacity/certificate of fitness
- Information to engage a return to work coordinator
- Information to engage a shared return to work coordinator
- Injured at work guide for workers
- Injury management consultants fact sheet
- Injury management program: a guide and checklist for insurers
- Insurer claims management audit manual
- Insurer claims management audit report template
- Insurer data reporting requirements
- Part 1: Claims technical manual
- Part 2: Claims data item guidance specification
- Part 3: Claims technical manual claims state and events reference
- Part 4: Claims technical manual validations reference
- Part 5: Claims technical manual code set reference
- Part 6: Claims technical manual payment classification reference
- Part 7: Claims technical manual payment classification and estimates reference
- Part 8: Policy technical manual
- Part 9 - Policy data item guidance
- Part 10: Policy technical manual validations reference
- Part 11: Policy technical manual code set reference
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- JobCover placement program checklist
- JobCover placement program - information for workers and employers
- JobCover placement program guidance material
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- Licensed insurer business plan guidelines 2017
- Licensing framework for specialised insurers
- List of psychology and counselling independent consultants
- List of self insurers
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- New pathways for enquiries, complaints and disputes: a quick guide
- Nominated treating doctor fact sheet
- NSW supplement to the guide: nationally consistent approval framework for workplace rehabilitation providers
- NSW workers compensation guidelines for the evaluation of permanent impairment
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- Permanent impairment guidelines table 4.2 interpretation and application
- Physical allied health recovery request (AHRR) example
- Post-implementation review: Guidelines for claiming workers compensation
- Preparing for my specialist appointment
- Psychological allied health recovery request (AHRR) example
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- Recover at work planning tool
- Recover at work tools for employers
- Recovery at work is just good business
- Recovery at work support tools - Rapid Review
- Recovery at work support tools - Rapid Review (summary of research findings)
- Register of injuries or illness (sample template)
- Requesting consent to release and exchange personal information
- Requirements for providing notification by specialised insurers
- Return to work assist program for micro employers guidance material
- Return to work program checklist - category 1 employers
- Return to work programs: information for employers
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- Section 53 Vocational re-education programs: requirements for insurers
- Security deposits for self and specialised insurers
- Self-insurer information requirements
- Self-insurer licensing policy
- Self-insurer tiering model
- Single self-insurer standard licence conditions
- Self-insurer s189 business information requirements
- SIRA report on June 2016 Nominal Insurer valuation
- SIRA review of Nominal Insurer liability valuations (August 2018)
- SIRA review of the Nominal Insurer liability valuation as at 31 December 2018
- Specialised insurer annual information: requirements
- Specialised insurer licence
- Specialised insurers worker health and safety loss management program: assessment criteria
- Standard return to work program
- Standard return to work program for category 2 employers
- Standards of practice
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- There's been a work-related incident - employers
- There's been a work-related incident - workers
- Training program guidance material
- Transition to work program guidance material
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- What to expect from your workplace rehabilitation provider
- When a worker is injured: A workers compensation guide for employers
- Work trial checklist
- Work trial guidance material
- Work trial program: Information for potential host employers
- Work trial program: Information for workers
- WorkCover medical assessments guidelines 2006
- Workers compensation benefits guide July 2019
- Workers compensation exercise physiologist requirements
- Workers compensation guide for allied health practitioners
- Workers compensation guide for employers
- Workers compensation guide for medical practitioners
- Workers compensation guidelines
- Workers compensation market practice and premium guidelines (MPPGs) 2018 (revised 21 May 2018)
- Workers compensation market practice and premium guidelines (MPPGs) 2018 (issued 1 March 2018)
- Workers compensation market practice and premium guidelines (MPPGs) 2017
- Workers compensation medical dispute assessment guidelines 2019
Workers compensation monthly dashboards
- August 2019 (PDF, 1.2 MB), Accessible version of the report (web page), data tables (Excel), explanatory note
- July 2019 (PDF, 1.0 MB), Accessible version of the report (web page), data tables (Excel,)
- June 2019 (PDF, 1.6 MB), Accessible version of the report (web page), data tables (Excel 251 KB), explanatory note (2 MB)
- May 2019 (PDF, 405 KB), Accessible version of the report (web page), data tables (Excel, 233 KB)
- April 2019 (PDF, 408 KB), Accessible version of the report (web page), data tables
- March 2019 (PDF, 782 KB), Accessible version of the report (web page), data tables
- February 2019 (PDF, 760 KB), Accessible version of the report (web page), data tables
- January 2019 (PDF, 780 KB), Accessible version of the report (web page), data tables
- December 2018 (PDF, 1.3 MB), Accessible version of the report (web page)
- November 2018 (PDF, 1.1 MB), Accessible version of the report (web page)
- October 2018 (PDF, 983.8 KB), Accessible version of the report (web page)
- September 2018 (PDF, 1.1 MB), Accessible version of the report (web page)
- August 2018 (PDF, 412.5 KB), Accessible version of the report (web page)
- July 2018 (PDF, 428.9 KB), Accessible version of the report (web page)
- June 2018 (PDF, 385 KB), Accessible version of the report (web page)
- May 2018 (PDF, 360 KB), Accessible version of the report (web page)
- April 2018 (PDF, 442 KB), Accessible version of the report (web page)
- March 2018 (PDF, 484 KB), Accessible version of the report (web page)
- First report (PDF, 458 KB), Accessible version of the report (web page)
Workers compensation statistical bulletins
- Statistical Bulletin 2016/2017
- Statistical Bulletin 2015/2016
- Statistical Bulletin 2014/2015
- Statistical bulletin 2013/2014
- Statistical bulletin 2012/2013
- Statistical bulletin 2011/2012
- Statistical bulletin 2010/2011
- Statistical bulletin 2009/2010
- Statistical bulletin 2008/2009
- Statistical bulletin 2007/2008
- Statistical bulletin 2006/2007
- Statistical bulletin 2005/2006
- Statistical bulletin 2004/2005
- Statistical bulletin 2003/2004
- Statistical bulletin 2002/2003
- Statistical bulletin 2001/2002
- Statistical bulletin 2000/2001
- Statistical bulletin 1999/2000
- Statistical bulletin 1998/1999
CTP Green Slips / motor accidents
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- Assessment conference venue policy
- Assessment claims fact sheet
- Assessment of disputes in connection with a claim fact sheet
- Assessment of minor dental injuries fact sheet
- Assessment of periorbital injury involving minor scarring or disfigurement fact sheet
- Assessor guidance material - costs regulation 2015
- Authorised health practitioner terms of appointment
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- Claims assessment guidelines
- Claims assessor code of conduct
- Claims assessor fee schedule 2016
- Claims assessor terms of engagement
- Classifying whiplash-associated disorder (WAD) severity
- Clinical framework for the Delivery of Health Services
- Compensation to relatives
- CTP Green Slip prices - how prices are set
- CTP Insurer claims experience and customer feedback comparison - Sept 2019
- CTP Insurer claims experience and customer feedback comparison - June 2019
- CTP JobCover placement program information for CTP claimants and employers
- CTP Legal Advisory Service
- CTP Legal Advisory Service - time frame expectations
- CTP scheme history
CTP scheme performance reports
- CTP insurer claims experience and customer feedback comparison - Sept 2019
- CTP insurer claims experience and customer feedback comparison - June 2019
- CTP scheme performance interim report 2018
- CTP scheme performance report 2017
- CTP scheme performance report 2016
- CTP scheme performance report 2015
- CTP scheme performance report 2014
- CTP scheme performance update 2013
- CTP scheme performance update 2012
CTP scheme actuarial review
CTP scheme quarterly reports
- Green Slip scheme quarterly insights - March 2019
- Green Slip scheme quarterly insights - December 2018
- Green Slip scheme quarterly insights - September 2018
- Green Slip scheme quarterly insights - June 2018
- Green Slip scheme quarterly insights - March 2018
- Green Slip scheme quarterly insights - December 2017
- CTP Scheme quarterly report – September 2017
- CTP Scheme quarterly report - June 2017
- CTP Scheme quarterly report - March 2017
- CTP scheme quarterly report - December 2016
- CTP scheme quarterly report - September 2016
- CTP scheme quarterly report - June 2016
- CTP scheme quarterly report - March 2016
- CTP scheme quarterly report - December 2015
- CTP vocational support guide
- CTP recover at work assist program - information sheet for claimants and employers
- CTP wallet card
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- Decision production guidelines for assessors
- Deterring fraudulent and exaggerated claims in the NSW CTP insurance scheme
- Disputes fact sheet for injured people
- Dispute resolution services division customer service charter
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- Failure to attend medical appointments and late cancellations fact sheet
- Fraud taskforce communique
- Fraud taskforce terms of reference
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- Green Slip scheme quarterly insights - March 2018
- Glossary of WPI terms and definitions of clinical findings
- Guide for people injured in motor accidents in NSW - (previously CTP quick guide)
for accidents on or after 1 December 2017 - Guide for people injured in a motor vehicle accident
for accidents before 1 December, 2017 - Guide for people who have lost a relative in a motor vehicle accident
- Guidelines for the management of acute whiplash-associated disorders
- Guidelines for the management of acute whiplash-associated disorders (technical report)
- Guidelines for mild traumatic brain injury
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- Impact of autonomous vehicles on CTP insurance report
- Impact of event scale
- Information for injured people about claims assessments with an interpreter
- Information for interpreters about medical and legal assessments
- Insurer claims handling and dispute resolution in compulsory third party (CTP) motor accident insurance
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- Legal costs in claims for CTP statutory benefits
- List of authorised health practictioners (by specialty)
- List of authorised health practictioners (by surname)
- List of claims assessors
- List of medical assessors (by specialty)
- List of medical assessors (by surname)
- List of medical review panel assessors
- List of merit reviewers
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- Making a claim for damages
- Minor skin injuries assessments fact sheet
- Minor injury: information for allied health professionals working in the NSW CTP scheme
- Minor injury: information for General Practitioners working in the NSW CTP scheme
- Motor accident guidelines
- Motor accident guidelines: determination of insurance premiums for taxis and hire vehicles
- Motor accidents guidelines: claims handling and medical (treatment, rehabilitation and care)
- Motor accidents medical assessment fee schedule
- Motor accidents medical assessment venue policy
- Motor accidents medical assessment guidelines
- Motor accidents medical assessor code of conduct
- Motor accidents medical assessor terms of appointment
- Motor accident guidelines - transitional excess profits and transitional excess losses
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- Neck disability index
- Neuropsychological assessment fact sheet for psychologists and other health practitioners
- Neuropsychological assessment fact sheet for solicitors, CTP insurers and LTCS staff
- Neuropsychological assessment fact sheet for the injured person, relatives and significant others
- Neuropsychological assessment fact sheet for the party arranging the assessment
- Neuropsychological assessment of children and adults with mild traumatic brain injury
- New whiplash guidelines for physiotherapists
- Nguyen case note and commentary
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- Permanent impairment guidelines
- Permanent impairment medical assessment examination checklist
- Personal injury benefits claims diagram
- Point to point Horizon Scanning Issues Paper
- Premium instalments for country taxis diagram
- Premium instalments for metro taxis diagram
- Providing allied health services in the NSW CTP schemes - FAQs
- Providing rehabilitation services in the NSW CTP schemes - FAQs
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Recovering from a mild brain injury (concussion) fact sheet translations
- Recovering from a mild brain injury (concussion) fact sheet Arabic
- Recovering from a mild brain injury (concussion) fact sheet Croatian
- Recovering from a mild brain injury (concussion) fact sheet Greek
- Recovering from a mild brain injury (concussion) fact sheet Hindi
- Recovering from a mild brain injury (concussion) fact sheet Italian
- Recovering from a mild brain injury (concussion) fact sheet Korean
- Recovering from a mild brain injury (concussion) fact sheet Macedonian
- Recovering from a mild brain injury (concussion) fact sheet Nepali
- Recovering from a mild brain injury (concussion) fact sheet Serbian
- Recovering from a mild brain injury (concussion) fact sheet simplified Chinese
- Recovering from a mild brain injury (concussion) fact sheet Spanish
- Recovering from a mild brain injury (concussion) fact sheet Turkish
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- Scarring case study - right lower limb
- Scarring case study - right upper limb and left lower limb
- Social research CTP reform full report
- Social research CTP reform summary report
- Support services to help injury people fact sheet
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- The Canadian C-spine rule
- The role of lawyers in the new CTP scheme fact sheet
- Treatment rehabilitation and attendant care (TRAC) guidelines
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- What is the medical assessment service fact sheet
- What to expect at an assessment conference fact sheet
- What to expect at a medical appointment fact sheet
- When someone dies in a motor vehicle accident: information for families
- Whiplash-associated disorders flowchart
- Whiplash: a fact sheet about your recovery in the first 12 weeks
- Whiplash: a summary for health professionals
- Whiplash assessment tools
- Whiplash: facts at your fingertips
- Whiplash guidelines educational slide set (presentation)
- Whiplash in primary care (medical observer)
- Whiplash neck exercises and videos
Whiplash recovery translations
- Whiplash recovery Arabic
- Whiplash recovery Chinese
- Whiplash recovery Croatian
- Whiplash recovery Greek
- Whiplash recovery Hindi
- Whiplash recovery Italian
- Whiplash recovery Korean
- Whiplash recovery Macedonian
- Whiplash recovery Nepali
- Whiplash recovery Serbian
- Whiplash recovery Spanish
- Whiplash recovery Turkish
- Whiplash recovery Vietnamese
Home building compensation
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Home Building compensation fund scheme information reports 2010
Consultations
Claims administration manual (CAM): draft Standards of Practice
Claims administration manual and guidelines review
Compliance and performance review of the Nominal Insurer
- Review of the Nominal Insurer: discussion paper
- Review of the Nominal Insurer web page (including the terms of reference)
Customer service conduct principles (proposed)
CTP insurance arrangements for the point to point industry
HBC draft guidelines on claims handling and business plans
HBC eligibility and premium standards consultation
- Home building premium guidelines discussion paper
- Home building eligibility guidelines discussion paper
- Home building eligibility consultation summary report
- Home building premium consultation summary report
Health professionals and earning capacity decisions in the CTP scheme
- The role of health professionals in informing insurers' earning capacity decisions in the CTP scheme
How CTP insurance claims are managed and disputes resolved
Market practice and premiums guidelines consultation
- MPPG draft guidelines 2018
- MPPG Annexure A (draft)
- MPPG Annexure B (draft)
- MPPG Annexure C (draft)
- MPPG Annexure D (draft)
- MPPG Annexure E (draft)
Options for reforming Green Slip insurance in NSW
- CTP reform options paper (PDF)
- CTP reform options paper - accessible (Word Document)
- CTP reform submission form
- NSW CTP Green slip
Reforming insurer profit in the CTP Green Slip Scheme
- Reforming insurer profit in CTP insurance discussion paper
- CTP scheme reform research
- Sun to set on insurer 'super profits' media release
- Terms of reference
Reforming the self-insurance licensing framework
- Issues paper
- PriceWaterhouse Coopers review of the NSW self-insurance licensing framework - final report
Regulation of legal costs for work capacity decision reviews
- Discussion paper (PDF)
- Discussion paper (HTML)
- Submissions summary (PDF)
- Submissions summary: Regulation of legal costs for work capacity decision reviews (HTML)
Review of the Nominal Insurer
Regulation of return to work assistance to include new benefits
Regulation of pre-injury average weekly earning (PIAWE)
- Discussion paper (PDF)
- Discussion paper (HTML)
- Submission form
- Regulation of pre-injury average weekly earnings – submissions summary
- Report on NSW workers compensation arrangements in relation to pre-injury average weekly earnings (PIAWE)
Review of CTP motor vehicle insurance point-to-point transport vehicles
- Point to point CTP discussion paper
- Review of CTP insurance for point-to-point transport vehicles announced
Review of implementation of the proposed self-insurance licensing framework
- Submission summary
- Self-insurance licensing framework review
- PWC review of the NSW self-insurance licensing framework – final report
- Self-insurance licensing framework review - submission form
- Group self-insurer: draft standard licence conditions
- Self-insurer top tier expectations and measures
Review of sponsorship, incentives, grants and research programs
Review of the guidelines for workplace return to work programs
- Draft guidelines for workplace RTW programs
- Guidelines for workplace return to work programs – summary of changes
- Submissions summary
Self insurer framework
- Draft self-insurer claims audit manual
- Draft self-insurer claims audit manual - appendix A: excel audit tool
- Draft self-insurer claims audit manual - appendix B: audit report template
- Draft self-insurer claims audit manual - appendix C: audit improvement plan
- Draft self-insurer tiering model
SIRA frameworks for non-treating health practitioners
- Proposed authorised health practitioner appointment and regulatory framework
- Proposed IMC framework
- Proposed injury management consultant approval and regulatory framework – summary of changes
SIRA Review of the minor injury definition
Workers compensation financial and premium supervision
- Workers compensation financial and premium supervision discussion paper
- Workers compensation financial and premium supervision submissions summary
Workers Compensation Regulation amendments 2016
Work-related hearing loss in the NSW Workers Compensation System
Corporate / About us
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Archived publications
CTP reform public submissions 2013
- CTP reform submission: Actuaries Institute NSW
- CTP reform submission: Australian Association of Social Workers
- CTP reform submission: Greens NSW
- CTP reform submission: IAG NRMA Insurance
- CTP reform submission: Insurance Council of Australia
- CTP reform submission: NSW Bar Association, Law of Society of NSW and Australian Lawyers Alliance (joint submission)
- CTP reform submission: KPMG
- CTP reform submission: NSW Motorcycle Alliance
- CTP reform submission: NSW Taxi Council
- CTP reform submission: QBE
- CTP reform submission: Slater and Gordon
- CTP reform submission: Transport for NSW
- Motor accidents premiums determination guidelines 2016
- Motor accidents premiums determination guidelines explanatory note
- Motor accidents premiums determination guidelines practice note 2015
- Motor accidents premiums determination guidelines supplementary
- Market practice and business plan guidelines 2014
- Market practice and business plan guidelines 2014 explanatory note
- Market practice and business plan guidelines 2014 practice note
- MCIS levy collection and refund guidelines
- Section 14 guidelines
- Ernst & Young report motorcycle premium setting review
- Review of premium relativities from 1 February 2016
- Review of premium relativities from 1 November 2014
- Review of selected performance indicators of the NSW CTP Scheme 2016
- Review of selected performance indicators of the NSW CTP Scheme 2015
- Motorcycle experience and premium setting March 2014
- Schedule of premium relativities from 1 February 2016
- Schedule of premium relativities from 1 November 2014