Accident Compensation Act 2001

• Jurisdiction: New Zealand
• Reference: 2001 No 49
• Citation: 2001 No 49
• Record Number: DLM99493
• Act Number: 49
• Type of Document: Act

Contenidos

• Accident Compensation Act 2001
• Contents
• 1 Title
• Part 1
• 2 Commencement
• 3 Purpose
• 4 Overview
• 5 Act to bind the Crown
• 5A Transitional, savings, and related provisions
• 6 Interpretation
• 7 Acute treatment
• 8 Cover
• 9 Earnings as an employee: what it means
• 10 Earnings as an employee: payments to spouse or partner
• 11 Earnings as an employee: what it does not include
• 12 Earnings as an employee: Work Account levy payable under section 168
• 13 Earnings of private domestic workers
• 14 Earnings as a self-employed person
• 15 Earnings as a shareholder-employee
• 16 New Zealand
• 17 Ordinarily resident in New Zealand
• 18 Spouse (and spouse in relation to deceased claimant)
• 18A Partner (and partner in relation to deceased claimant)
• Part 2
• 19 Key terms in this Part
• 20 Cover for personal injury suffered in New Zealand (except mental injury caused by certain criminal acts or work-related mental injury)
• 21 Cover for mental injury caused by certain criminal acts
• 21A Cover under Accident Rehabilitation and Compensation Insurance Act 1992 for mental injury caused by certain criminal acts
• 21B Cover for work-related mental injury
• 22 Cover for personal injury suffered outside New Zealand (except mental injury caused by certain criminal acts or work-related mental injury)
• 23 Cover for personal injury suffered by persons not ordinarily resident in New Zealand: exclusions while travelling to, around, and from New Zealand
• 24 Cover for personal injury caused by work-related gradual process, disease, or infection: exclusion for events occurring outside New Zealand before 1 April 1974
• 25 Accident
• 25A Review of operation of Schedule 3A
• 26 Personal injury
• 27 Mental injury
• 28 Work-related personal injury
• 29 Personal injury that is both work-related and motor vehicle injury
• 30 Personal injury caused by work-related gradual process, disease, or infection
• 31 Ministerial advisory panel on work-related gradual process, disease, or infection
• 32 Treatment injury
• 33 Treatment
• 34 Cover for personal injury caused by medical misadventure before 1 July 2005
• 35 Motor vehicle injury
• 36 Date on which person is to be regarded as suffering mental injury
• 37 Date on which person is to be regarded as suffering personal injury caused by work-related gradual process, disease, or infection
• 38 Date on which person is to be regarded as suffering treatment injury
• Part 3
• 39 Meaning of Corporation
• 40 Purpose of Code
• 41 Code applies generally
• 42 Corporation to prepare draft Code in consultation with persons nominated by Minister
• 43 Public consultation on draft Code after agreement by Minister
• 44 Approval of Code by Minister
• 45 Corporation's obligations in respect of Code
• 46 Application of Legislation Act 2012 to Code
• 47 Amendments to Code
• 48 Person to lodge claim for cover and entitlement
• 49 Treatment provider lodging claim on behalf of person
• 50 Responsibilities of Corporation after claim lodged
• 51 When claim is lodged and received
• 52 Manner of making claim
• 53 Time for making claim
• 54 Responsibility of Corporation to make...