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Accident Compensation Act 2001

Management of the Scheme - Work Account

168B: Self-employed persons to pay levies

You could also call this:

“Self-employed workers must pay special fees to ACC”

If you’re self-employed, you need to pay money called levies to help fund the Work Account. These levies are set for specific time periods. When you get an invoice or document from ACC or someone working for them, it will tell 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 or document.

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Part 6 Management of the Scheme
Work Account

168BSelf-employed persons to pay levies

  1. A self-employed person must pay, in accordance with this Act and regulations made under it, levies to fund the Work Account.

  2. A levy must relate to a prescribed period.

  3. A self-employed person must pay the levy by the date specified for payment, whether in an invoice or other appropriate document given to the self-employed person 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.

Notes
  • Section 168B: inserted, on , by section 5 of the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 8).
  • Section 168B(3): amended, on , by section 23 of the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 46).