Hon Dr Nick Smith
Government Bill
90—1
Explanatory note
1 Title
2 Commencement
3 Principal Act amended
Part 1Amendments to principal Act
4 Interpretation
5 Earnings as an employee: Work Account levy payable under section 168 and Residual Claims levy payable under section 193
6 Personal injury
7 Personal injury caused by work-related gradual process, disease, or infection
8 Section 31 repealed
9 Conduct of initial occupational assessment
10 New section 119 inserted
119 Disentitlement for wilfully self-inflicted personal injuries and suicide
11 New sections 122 and 122A substituted
122 Disentitlement for certain imprisoned offenders
122A Exemption from section 122(1)
12 Separate Accounts
13 New section 167 substituted
167 Application and source of funds
14 Rates of levies
15 New section 169AA inserted
169AA Basis on which funds to be calculated
16 Classification of industries or risks
17 Purchase of weekly compensation by shareholder-employees
18 Effect on Work Account levy
19 Heading above section 192 and sections 192 to 200 repealed
20 Earner levies for self-employed persons who purchase weekly compensation
21 Application and source of funds
22 Rate of levies
23 New section 215 substituted
215 Basis on which funds to be calculated
24 Levy categories
25 Collection of levies
26 Application and source of funds
27 Earners to pay levies
28 Rate of levies
29 New section 220A inserted
220A Basis on which funds to be calculated
30 Collection of levies by deduction from employee earnings
31 Payment of Earners' Account levy and Earners' Account Residual levy by self-employed persons
32 Persons eligible to purchase weekly compensation
33 Mixed earnings as employee and self-employed person
34 Residual Claims levy and Work Account levy payable by employers on disposal or cessation of business or when ceasing to employ
35 New section 233 substituted
233 Levies payable to Corporation by self-employed person who ceases to derive earnings as such
36 Section 235 repealed
37 Corporation to define risk classification and decide levy if activity not classified by regulations
38 Information available to Corporation
39 Section 265 substituted
265 Ancillary powers of Corporation
40 Management of Accounts
41 New section 278A inserted
278A Annual financial condition report
42 Section 291 repealed
43 Regulations relating to levies
44 Schedules 1 and 4 amended
Part 2Miscellaneous provisions
Validation
45 Validation of disclosure of information for assessment of levies
Consequential amendments
46 Consequential amendments to other Acts
Transitional provisions for levies
47 Transfer of assets and liabilities to Work Account
48 Sections 330 and 331 of principal Act do not apply to making of regulations for Work Account in 2010–11 tax year
49 Levies continue to be payable
Transitional provisions for other matters
50 Transitional provision for disentitlement for wilfully self-inflicted personal injuries and suicide
51 Transitional provision for disentitlement for certain imprisoned offenders
52 Claims for personal injury including hearing loss that have been lodged but not decided
53 Claims for work-related gradual process, disease, or infection that have been lodged but not decided
54 Assessment of vocational independence
55 Calculations of weekly earnings for weekly compensation
56 Calculations of weekly compensation for loss of potential earning capacity
57 Special provision for claimant already entitled to receive weekly compensation for loss of potential earning capacity
58 Abatement of weekly compensation
59 Members of ministerial advisory panels not entitled to compensation
Schedule 1 Amendments to Schedules 1 and 4
Schedule 2 Consequential amendments to other Acts
The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as follows: