Section 23 — Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act 2001: Cover for personal injury suffered by persons not ordinarily resident in New Zealand: exclusions while travelling to, around, and from New Zealand

23 Cover for personal injury suffered by persons not ordinarily resident in New Zealand: exclusions while travelling to, around, and from New Zealand (1) A person not ordinarily resident in New Zealand does not have cover for a personal injury if he or she suffers it while he or she— (a) is on board a ship or aircraft or other means of conveyance described in subsection (2) ; or (b) is embarking or disembarking from any such ship or aircraft or conveyance. (2) Subsection (1)(a) relates to the ship, aircraft, or conveyance on which the person— (a) comes to New Zealand; or (b) leaves New Zealand; or (c) comes to New Zealand, is carried and accommodated in the course of visiting New Zealand, and leaves New Zealand. (3) For the purposes of subsection (1)(b) ,— (a) embarking begins as soon as a person is on a gangway, air bridge, or other thing attached to or laid against a ship, aircraft, or other conveyance and available for use in embarking: (b) disembarking finishes as soon as a person has left any gangway, air bridge, or other thing attached to or laid against a ship, aircraft, or other conveyance and available for use in disembarking. Compare: 1998 No 114 s 42