Plain language law

New Zealand law explained for everyone

Social Security Act 2018

Enforcement: sanctions and offences - Sanctions for breach of obligations other than young person or young parent obligations - Recompliance

262: Impossibility of remedying failure of work-test obligation

You could also call this:

“MSD can give you another chance if you can't fix a work-test mistake”

If you can’t fix a mistake you made with your work-test obligation, you can still make things right. You do this by doing something that’s the same or very similar to what you were supposed to do in the first place. You need to do this new activity in a way that the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) is happy with. This is how you can get back on track with your obligations, even when you can’t undo your original mistake.

This text is automatically generated. It might be out of date or be missing some parts. Find out more about how we do this.

This page was last updated on

View the original legislation for this page at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=DLM6783681.

Topics:
Work and jobs > Worker rights
Government and voting > Government departments
Previous

261: How person recomplies after failure to comply with obligation, or

“How to fix things when you break a rule”

Next

263: How person recomplies after failure to comply with drug-testing obligation, or

“How to fix things if you don't follow drug-testing rules”

Part 5 Enforcement: sanctions and offences
Sanctions for breach of obligations other than young person or young parent obligations: Recompliance

262Impossibility of remedying failure of work-test obligation

  1. If it is impossible to remedy a failure to comply with a work-test obligation, a person (P) recomplies if P undertakes, to MSD’s satisfaction, an activity that is the same as, or substantially similar to, the activity that P failed to undertake under the work-test obligation in question.

Compare