Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act 2008

Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act 2008

Public Act2008 No 46
Date of assent27 June 2008
Commencementsee section 2

Contents

1 Title

2 Commencement

3 Principal Act amended

Part 1
Amendments to principal Act

4 Interpretation

5 Cover for personal injury suffered in New Zealand (except mental injury caused by certain criminal acts)

6 New section 21B inserted

21B Cover for work-related mental injury

7 Cover for personal injury suffered outside New Zealand (except mental injury caused by certain criminal acts)

8 Personal injury

9 Work-related personal injury

10 Personal injury caused by work-related gradual process, disease, or infection

11 Motor vehicle injury

12 Date on which person is to be regarded as suffering mental injury

13 Date on which person is to be regarded as suffering personal injury caused by work-related gradual process, disease, or infection

14 Steps Corporation takes to action complicated claims for cover

15 Corporation liable to provide vocational rehabilitation

16 Further matters to be considered in deciding whether to provide vocational rehabilitation

17 Conduct of initial occupational assessment

18 Procedure in determining incapacity under section 103 or section 105

19 Corporation to determine incapacity of claimant who, at time of incapacity, had ceased to be employee, was potential earner, or had purchased weekly compensation under section 223

20 Disentitlement for wilfully self-inflicted personal injuries and suicide

21 Employers to pay levies

22 Private domestic workers to pay levies

23 Self-employed persons to pay levies

24 Persons eligible to purchase weekly compensation

25 Penalties and interest due to Corporation in respect of unpaid levies

26 Ancillary powers of Corporation

27 Management of Accounts

28 Regulations relating to rehabilitation

29 New section 324A inserted

324A Annual review of amounts prescribed by regulations made under section 324

30 Amendment of Schedule 2 by Order in Council

31 Weekly earnings of certain claimants increased

32 Compensation payable to surviving spouses or de facto partners under 1972 and 1982 Acts

Part 2
Further amendment to principal Act and regulations, and additional transitional provision

33 Schedule 1 amended

34 Amendment to Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation (Interest Rate for Late Payment of Levies) Regulations 2002

35 Transitional provision for payment of levies and payment of penalties and interest due for unpaid levies

Schedule
Amendments to Schedule 1

Legislative history

The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as follows: