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Section 168A — Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act 2001: Private domestic workers to pay levies

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168A Private domestic workers to pay levies (1) A private domestic worker must pay, in accordance with this Act and regulations made under this Act, levies to fund the Work Account. (2) A levy must relate to a prescribed period. (3) A private domestic worker must pay the levy by the date specified for payment, whether in an invoice or another appropriate document given to the private domestic worker by the Corporation or an agent of the Corporation, being a date not less than 30 days after the date of the invoice or other appropriate document. (4) [Repealed] (5) Nothing in this Act requires a private domestic worker to pay a Work Account levy on his or her relevant earnings that exceed the specified maximum. For the purpose of this subsection, the relevant earnings are the person's earnings as a private domestic worker together with his or her earnings as an employee (other than as a private domestic worker). (6) Sections 170 , 171 , and 173 apply to private domestic workers as if they were both the employer and the employee, and references to section 168 in those sections must, in relation to private domestic workers, be read as references to this section. Section 168A was inserted, as from 1 July 2005, by section 31 Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act (No 2) 2005 (2005 No 45). Subsection (1) was amended, as from 1 April 2007, by section 13(1) Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 8) by substituting “ Work Account ” for “ Employers' Account ” . See sections 14 to 16 of that Act for the transitional provisions. Section 168A(3): amended, on 1 August 2008, by section 22 of the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 46). Subsection (4) was repealed, as from 1 April 2007, by section 13(2) Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 8). See sections 14 to 16 of that Act for the transitional provisions. Subsection (5) was amended, as from 1 April 2007, by section 13(1) Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 8) by substituting “ a Work Account levy ” for “ an employer levy ” . See sections 14 to 16 of that Act for the transitional provisions.

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