Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act 2001
Sections and provisions with full text and the judgments that cite each one.
Section 213 — Application and source of funds
213 Application and source of funds (1) The purpose of the Motor Vehicle Account is to finance entitlements provided under this Act in respect of motor vehicle injuries. (2) The funds for the Motor…
Section 214 — Rate of levies
214 Rate of levies (1) A registered owner of a motor vehicle must pay levies at an annual or other rate or rates prescribed in regulations made under this Act. (2) A person who holds a trade licence…
Section 215 — Basis on which funds to be calculated
215 Basis on which funds to be calculated The extent of funds to be derived under section 213(2) is to be calculated to achieve the following: (a) the outstanding claims liability for the Motor…
Section 216 — Levy categories
216 Levy categories Regulations made under this Act may establish a system for differential levies in relation to all or any of the following or categories of the following: (a) motor vehicles: (b)…
Section 217 — Collection of levies
217 Collection of levies (1) The levies payable under section 214(1) or (2) are payable on application for a motor vehicle licence under section 10 of the Transport (Vehicle and Driver Registration…
Section 218 — Application and source of funds
218 Application and source of funds (1) In this section, unless the context otherwise requires, non-work injury means a personal injury covered by this Act other than— (a) a work-related personal…
Section 219 — Earners to pay levies
219 Earners to pay levies (1) An earner must pay, in accordance with this Act and regulations made under it, levies to fund the Earners' Account. (2) An earner must pay, in accordance with this Act…
Section 220 — Rate of levies
220 Rate of levies (1) Levies must be paid under section 219 at a rate or rates prescribed by regulations made under this Act and must be related in whole or in part to the level of earnings derived…
Section 221 — Collection of levies by deduction from employee earnings
221 Collection of levies by deduction from employee earnings (1) For the purpose of enabling the collection of the levies (including the Earners' Account Residual levy) payable under section 219 by…
Section 222 — Payment of Earners' Account levy and Earners' Account Residual levy by self-employed persons
222 Payment of Earners' Account levy and Earners' Account Residual levy by self-employed persons (1) A self-employed person must pay the levies payable under section 219 by the date specified for…
Section 223 — Persons eligible to purchase weekly compensation
223 Persons eligible to purchase weekly compensation (1) A person who is or has been an earner and is a person described in subsection (2) may apply to purchase from the Corporation the right to…
Section 224 — Compensation for persons who purchase weekly compensation
224 Compensation for persons who purchase weekly compensation (1) A person who has purchased the right to receive weekly compensation under section 223 is entitled to weekly compensation for loss of…
Section 225 — Levies for persons who purchase weekly compensation
225 Levies for persons who purchase weekly compensation (1) Levies collected under section 223(2) are to be used to fund the Earners' Account. (2) The levy payable may be prescribed in regulations…
Section 226 — Resumption of employment by persons who purchased weekly compensation
226 Resumption of employment by persons who purchased weekly compensation (1) This section applies where a person who has purchased the right to receive weekly compensation under section 223 resumes…
Section 227 — Application and source of funds
227 Application and source of funds (1) The purpose of the Non-Earners' Account is to finance entitlements provided under this Act in respect of personal injury (other than motor vehicle injury or…
Section 228 — Application and source of funds
228 Application and source of funds (1) The purpose of the Treatment Injury Account is to finance entitlements provided under this Act in respect of— (a) treatment injury (other than the excluded…
Section 229 — Levy categories and rates
229 Levy categories and rates (1) For the purposes of this section, regulations made under this Act may— (a) prescribe levies in relation to treatment injury: (b) prescribe classes of persons or…
Section 230 — Collection of levies
230 Collection of levies (1) Levies payable in respect of the Treatment Injury Account are payable to the Corporation in a prescribed manner, which may be linked to the payment of annual practising…
Section 231 — Mixed earnings as employee and self-employed person
231 Mixed earnings as employee and self-employed person (1) This section applies to persons who, in a tax year, have both earnings as an employee and earnings as a self-employed person. (2) If such a…
Section 232 — Residual Claims levy and Work Account levy payable by employers on disposal or cessation of business or when ceasing to employ
232 Residual Claims levy and Work Account levy payable by employers on disposal or cessation of business or when ceasing to employ (1) This section applies to every employer who disposes of or…
Section 233 — Levies payable to Corporation by self-employed person who ceases to derive earnings as such
233 Levies payable to Corporation by self-employed person who ceases to derive earnings as such (1) Every self-employed person who, during a tax year, ceases to derive earnings as a self-employed…
Section 234 — Levies may be collected by instalments
234 Levies may be collected by instalments (1) The Corporation may collect any levy by instalments if the person liable to pay the levy agrees. (2) The Corporation may charge a reasonable fee to…
Section 235 — Collection of levies from self-employed and employers
235 Collection of levies from self-employed and employers (1) Clause 10 of Schedule 4 applies to— (a) the collection of the Earners' Account Residual levy from self-employed persons and from private…
Section 236 — Challenges to levies
236 Challenges to levies (1) Any person who is dissatisfied with any decision of the Corporation in respect of any levy paid or payable or claimed to be payable under this Part by that person may…
Section 237 — Corporation may revise decisions
237 Corporation may revise decisions (1) If the Corporation considers it made a decision in error about levies payable by a person, it may, subject to section 243(3) , revise the decision at any…
Section 238 — Effect of review or appeal about levy
238 Effect of review or appeal about levy No obligation to pay any levy, and no right to receive or recover any levy, is suspended because— (a) an applicant has made a review application relating to…
Section 239 — Corporation to define risk classification and decide levy if activity not classified by regulations
239 Corporation to define risk classification and decide levy if activity not classified by regulations (1) This section applies if none of the classifications of industry or risk defined by the…
Section 240 — Determinations
240 Determinations For the purposes of this Part, the Corporation may determine— (a) whether any income derived by a person is earnings as an employee or earnings as a self-employed person; and (b)…
Section 241 — Statements
241 Statements (1) An employer and an earner must provide such statements of earnings or estimates of earnings as the Corporation may require. (2) Statements required under subsection (1) must be in…
Section 242 — Failure to provide statement
242 Failure to provide statement (1) A person who is required to deliver any statement, document, or other information under section 241 and who intentionally fails to do so commits an offence…
Section 243 — Power to assess levies
243 Power to assess levies (1) The Corporation may determine the amount of levy that ought to be or to have been paid in any case where— (a) an accurate statement of the matters required to be stated…
Section 244 — Amounts of levy exempt from payment
244 Amounts of levy exempt from payment (1) This section applies if— (a) an invoice is issued for the purpose of this Act (whether or not only for that purpose or also for the purpose of any other…
Section 245 — Agent to whom levies may be paid
245 Agent to whom levies may be paid (1) If the Corporation so requires, a person must pay levies (or any part of any levy) payable under this Act to the Commissioner as agent for the Corporation.…
Section 246 — Information available to Corporation
246 Information available to Corporation (1) The purpose of this section is to enable the Corporation to establish liability for levies under this Part effectively in relation to employers,…
Section 247 — Change of balance date
247 Change of balance date If any person (with the consent of the Commissioner) changes the date of the annual balance of the person's accounts for the purposes of the Tax Administration Act 1994 ,—…
Section 248 — Recovery of debts by Corporation
248 Recovery of debts by Corporation (1) The following are a debt due to the Corporation: (a) a sum (an overpayment ) paid under this Act by the Corporation, being— (i) a sum paid to a person that is…
Section 249 — Penalties due to Corporation in respect of overpayments
249 Penalties due to Corporation in respect of overpayments (1) The following penalties are payable to the Corporation by a person who receives an overpayment from the Corporation: (a) a penalty of…
Section 250 — Penalties and interest due to Corporation in respect of unpaid levies
250 Penalties and interest due to Corporation in respect of unpaid levies (1) This section applies if any levy payable under this Act or any former Act is unpaid on the day that is 30 days after the…
Section 251 — Recovery of payments
251 Recovery of payments (1) If a person receives a payment from the Corporation in good faith, the Corporation may not recover all or part of the payment on the ground only that the decision under…
Section 252 — Relationship with social security benefits: reimbursement by Corporation
252 Relationship with social security benefits: reimbursement by Corporation (1) This section applies if a person— (a) receives a payment of an income-tested benefit under the Social Security Act…
Section 253 — Relationship with social security benefits: reimbursement to Corporation
253 Relationship with social security benefits: reimbursement to Corporation (1) This section applies if a person— (a) receives a payment from the Corporation in respect of an entitlement that is…
Section 254 — Limitation period
254 Limitation period (1) Despite any other enactment, an action or remedy for the recovery of any levy, penalty, or interest by the Corporation may be taken until the expiry of 10 years beginning on…
Section 255 — Refunds payable by Corporation
255 Refunds payable by Corporation (1) If the Corporation is satisfied that a levy payable under this Act has been paid in excess of the amount properly payable, the Corporation must— (a) refund the…
Section 256 — Application of payments
256 Application of payments If a person who makes a payment to the Corporation does not identify the Account or levy to which the payment is to be applied, the Corporation— (a) may apply the payment…
Section 257 — Application of sections 248 , 249 , and 254 to third parties
257 Application of sections 248 , 249 , and 254 to third parties Sections 248 , 249 , and 254 apply in respect of any sum of money paid or applied under an agreement or contract or arrangement…
Section 258 — Production of documents
258 Production of documents (1) The production of any document under the seal of the Corporation, or under the hand of any person authorised for the purpose by the Corporation or an agent of the…
Section 259 — Accident Compensation Corporation
259 Accident Compensation Corporation (1) The Accident Compensation Corporation established by the Accident Insurance Act 1998 is continued. (2) The Corporation is a Crown entity for the purposes of…
Section 260 — Powers of Corporation
260 Powers of Corporation [Repealed] Section 260 was repealed, as from 25 January 2005, by section 200 Crown Entities Act 2004 (2004 No 115).
Section 261 — Relationship between Corporation and subsidiaries
261 Relationship between Corporation and subsidiaries Except as otherwise specified in this Act or as required by virtue of any delegation to a Crown entity subsidiary of the Corporation, a reference…
Section 262 — Functions of Corporation
262 Functions of Corporation (1) The functions of the Corporation are to— (a) carry out the duties referred to in section 165 ; and (b) promote measures to reduce the incidence and severity of…