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assessment of the extent of acceptance" of the
draft agreement.
(c)
We took the view that our role of observing,
over a period of two months, "the work of the
Assessment Office in all its aspects" should
enable us to judge whether it had discharged
all its duties impartially and had faithfully
followed its prescribed procedures.
THE MONITORING PROGRAMME
6.
In the light of this approach we set ourselves
a monitoring programme which would enable us, in effect,
to audit the day-to-day work of the Assessment Office.
In order to assist us in our monitoring role, we included
in the programme arrangements to witness (in the words
of our terms of reference) "aspects of the exercise of
consultation".
7.
We were conscious of the delicate character
of our 'audit' function. We had to keep in close touch
with the Commissioner and his colleagues in the Assessment
Office, so that we could scrutinise the material on which
they were working and also raise any questions that we