Assessment and recovery challenge deferred pending departmental instructions; matter listed for further hearing.

A challenge to an assessment order and consequent recovery was not finally adjudicated in these proceedings because the court required further instructions from the department. The matter was adjourned and listed for further hearing on the next date, with directions to departmental counsel to obtain instructions. The document records only the interim course adopted and does not determine the merits of the assessment or recovery challenge.

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Issues: Whether the petitioner's challenge to the assessment order and recovery could be finally adjudicated in the present proceedings, and whether the matter required further consideration on the respondents' instructions.

Outcome: The matter was adjourned and listed for further hearing on the next date, with directions for the departmental counsel to obtain instructions.

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