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3.

(d)

In discharging its duties, has it faithfully

followed the procedures presented in its terms

of reference ?

5.

To some extent those questions overlap each

other; 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 was operating,

efficient arrangements for handling all the

letters, submissions, and media material it

received through the processes of receipt,

registration, translation, photocopying,

analysis, assessment and final disposal.

(b)

We considered that the accuracy of the Assessment

Office's work would need to be judged in the

context of the analyses, assessments, and factual

summaries it would have to make of all the material

it received, and in particular of the "overall