Section Sch1-12 — Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act 2001: Definitions

12 Definitions In clauses 13 to 23 ,— aid or appliance means any item likely to assist in restoring a claimant to independence attendant care — (a) means— (i) personal care; and (ii) assistance with cognitive tasks of daily living, such as communication, orientation, planning, and task completion; and (iii) protection of the claimant from further injury in his or her ordinary environment; and (b) includes training a person to provide attendant care, if the Corporation agrees to fund the training; but (c) does not include child care, domestic activities, or home maintenance child — (a) means a child under 14 years; and (b) includes any other child, if the child needs child care because of his or her physical or mental condition communication means conveying and receiving information by using skills such as anger management, assertiveness, ability to concentrate, language, memory, numeracy, social awareness, social skills, speech production and development, and using communications technology domestic activities means cleaning, laundry, meal preparation, and associated shopping activities, in relation to the claimant's home education support — (a) means the provision of support or assistance for a claimant to assist him or her to achieve independence in educational participation; and (b) includes resource preparation and planning assessed as necessary for the provision of that support or assistance educational participation means participation within the claimant's school day or period of attendance at an early childhood education service by a claimant who is— (a) entitled to free enrolment and free education under the Education Act 1989 and is— (i) enrolled at a registered school within the meaning of that Act; or (ii) exempted under section 21 or 22A of that Act from the requirement to be enrolled; or (iii) exempted under section 26 (but not subsection (1)(b)(iii) ) of that Act from attending a school; or (b) attending— (i) an early childhood centre within the meaning of section 308 of the Education Act 1989 ; or (ii) a home-based service chartered under section 312 of that Act; or (c) enrolled at a state school, special school, special class, or special clinic, under an agreement to which section 9 of the Education Act 1989 applies home — (a) means residential premises in New Zealand in which the claimant lives and which are owned, rented, or otherwise lawfully occupied by the claimant or his or her parent, guardian, or spouse or partner; and (b) includes residential premises in New Zealand in which the claimant proposes to live after they are built and which will be owned, rented, or otherwise lawfully occupied by the claimant or his or her parent, guardian, or spouse or partner; but (c) does not include any hospital, hostel, hotel, motel, rest home, or other institution home: paragraphs (a) and (b) of this definition were amended, as from 26 April 2005, by section 8(1) Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 12) by inserting the words “ or partner ” after the word “ spouse ” . home help means the provision, in New Zealand, of domestic activities independence includes the capacity to function in the following areas (a) communication: (b) domestic activities: (c) educational participation (e) financial management: (f) health care: (g) hygiene care: (h) mobility: (i) motivation: (j) safety management: (k) sexuality: (l) cognitive tasks of daily living, such as orientation, planning, and task completion: (m) use of transport modifications to the home — (a) means alterations to a claimant's home that— (i) have the purpose of assisting a claimant to live as independently as practicable, having regard to the limitations caused by his or her injury; and (ii) remove structural barriers or add features fixed to the home; and (b) includes real estate fees, legal fees, removal costs, and the costs of any modifications incurred in relocating a claimant to a new home, if the Corporation decides that relocation is the most cost effective alternative to modification of the claimant's existing home personal care means physical assistance to move around and to take care of basic personal needs such as bathing, dressing, feeding, and toileting rehabilitation outcome means— (a) before an individual rehabilitation plan is agreed, a rehabilitation goal, objective, or result determined by the Corporation: (b) if an individual rehabilitation plan is agreed, a goal, objective, or result specified in the plan training for independence includes— (a) training and coaching a claimant to assist in restoring the claimant's independence: (b) training in using and maintaining aids or appliances, and integrating them into the claimant's daily life, for a claimant who needs aids or appliances transport for independence — (a) means assistance with the cost of, for example,— (i) escorted travel by vehicle: (ii) modifying a vehicle: (iii) purchasing a vehicle: (iv) travelling by public transport: (v) travelling by taxi; and (b) includes driver's licence retraining, for a claimant who previously had a driver's licence. Compare: 1998 No 114 Schedule 1 cl 36