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Accident Compensation Act 2001

Cover - Principles

23: Cover for personal injury suffered by persons not ordinarily resident in New Zealand: exclusions while travelling to, around, and from New Zealand

You could also call this:

"No injury cover for visitors while travelling on planes, ships, or other transport in New Zealand"

If you don't usually live in New Zealand, you won't be covered for injuries in certain situations when you're travelling to, from, or around New Zealand. You won't be covered if you get hurt while you're on a ship, plane, or other transport that's taking you to or from New Zealand, or carrying you around New Zealand as part of your visit. This also applies when you're getting on or off these forms of transport.

When we talk about getting on transport, it starts as soon as you step onto things like gangways or air bridges that are attached to the ship, plane, or other transport. When we talk about getting off, it ends as soon as you've left these same types of things.

This rule is about making sure you're not covered for injuries that happen while you're in the process of entering or leaving New Zealand, or while you're being transported around as part of your visit to the country.

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Part 2Cover
Principles

23Cover for personal injury suffered by persons not ordinarily resident in New Zealand: exclusions while travelling to, around, and from New Zealand

  1. A person not ordinarily resident in New Zealand does not have cover for a personal injury if he or she suffers it while he or she—

  2. is on board a ship or aircraft or other means of conveyance described in subsection (2); or
    1. is embarking or disembarking from any such ship or aircraft or conveyance.

      1. Subsection (1)(a) relates to the ship, aircraft, or conveyance on which the person—

      2. comes to New Zealand; or
        1. leaves New Zealand; or
          1. comes to New Zealand, is carried and accommodated in the course of visiting New Zealand, and leaves New Zealand.

            1. For the purposes of subsection (1)(b),—

            2. embarking begins as soon as a person is on a gangway, air bridge, or other thing attached to or laid against a ship, aircraft, or other conveyance and available for use in embarking:
              1. disembarking finishes as soon as a person has left any gangway, air bridge, or other thing attached to or laid against a ship, aircraft, or other conveyance and available for use in disembarking.