Accident Compensation Act 2001

Management of the Scheme - Work Account

168A: Private domestic workers to pay levies

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"Private house helpers must pay money to ACC for work safety"

If you're a private domestic worker, you need to pay levies to fund the Work Account. These levies are set for specific time periods. You'll get an invoice or document from the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) or their agent telling you when to pay. You must pay by the date they give you, which will be at least 30 days after the date on the invoice.

There's a limit to how much you need to pay. You don't have to pay levies on any earnings above a certain amount. This limit applies to your combined earnings as a private domestic worker and any other job you might have.

The rules in sections 170, 171, and 173 of the Accident Compensation Act 2001 apply to you as if you're both the employer and the employee. When these sections mention section 168, for you it means this section instead.

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Part 6Management of the Scheme
Work Account

168APrivate domestic workers to pay levies

  1. A private domestic worker must pay, in accordance with this Act and regulations made under this Act, levies to fund the Work Account.

  2. A levy must relate to a prescribed period.

  3. A private domestic worker must pay the levy by the date specified for payment, whether in an invoice or another appropriate document given to the private domestic worker by the Corporation or an agent of the Corporation, being a date not less than 30 days after the date of the invoice or other appropriate document.

  4. Repealed
  5. Nothing in this Act requires a private domestic worker to pay a Work Account levy on his or her relevant earnings that exceed the specified maximum. For the purpose of this subsection, the relevant earnings are the person's earnings as a private domestic worker together with his or her earnings as an employee (other than as a private domestic worker).

  6. Sections 170, 171, and 173 apply to private domestic workers as if they were both the employer and the employee, and references to section 168 in those sections must, in relation to private domestic workers, be read as references to this section.

Notes
  • Section 168A: inserted, on , by section 31 of the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act (No 2) 2005 (2005 No 45).
  • Section 168A(1): amended, on , by section 13(1) of the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 8).
  • Section 168A(3): amended, on , by section 22 of the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 46).
  • Section 168A(4): repealed, on , by section 13(1) of the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 8).
  • Section 168A(5): amended, on , by section 13(1) of the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 8).