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(c)

Has it discharged them impartially ?

(a)

In discharging its duties, has it faithfully

followed the procedures presented in its

terms of reference ?

5.

Those questions to some extent overlap.

We approached them as follows:-

(a)

If the Assessment Office was to discharge

its duties "properly", it had not only to

perform them "accurately and impartially",

but also to carry them out with the maximum

efficiency on the basis of "faithfully"

applied procedures.

We needed to be satisfied,

therefore, that the Assessment Office had

made, and had operated, efficient arrangements

for handling

through the processes of

receipt, registration, translation, photocopying,

analysis, assessment and final disposal the

letters and submissions sent to it.

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(b) We considered that the "accuracy" of the

Assessment Office's work would need to be