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Accident Compensation Act 2001

Management of the Scheme - Motor Vehicle Account

216: Levy categories

You could also call this:

"Different charges for different types of vehicles and owners"

The law allows for different types of charges (called levies) to be set up for motor vehicles and related things. These charges can be different for:

  1. Different types of motor vehicles
  2. People who are registered as owners of motor vehicles
  3. People who have special trade plates for their vehicles
  4. Different types of fuel used in vehicles

The law also says that these things can be put into different groups based on how risky they are. This means that some groups might have to pay more charges than others. For example, some types of cars might be seen as more risky, so their owners might have to pay higher charges.

This system of different charges applies to:

  1. Motor vehicles
  2. People who own motor vehicles
  3. People with special trade plates for their vehicles

The law is designed to make sure that the charges match how risky each group is.

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Part 6Management of the Scheme
Motor Vehicle Account

216Levy categories

  1. Regulations made under this Act may establish a system for differential levies in relation to all or any of the following or categories of the following:

  2. motor vehicles:
    1. persons registered under Part 17 of the Land Transport Act 1998 in respect of motor vehicles:
      1. persons who hold trade plates under section 262(3) of the Land Transport Act 1998.
        1. fuel in respect of which a levy is payable under section 213(2)(c).

          1. The regulations may also classify all or any of the following, or categories of the following, into classes that most accurately describe their risk rating and may impose levies at different rates in relation to those classes in accordance with the system of differential levies referred to in subsection (1):

          2. motor vehicles:
            1. registered owners of motor vehicles:
              1. persons who hold trade plates under section 262(3) of the Land Transport Act 1998.

                1. Subsection (2) does not limit subsection (1).

                Notes
                • Section 216(1)(b): amended, on , by section 35(4) of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 17).
                • Section 216(1)(c): amended, on , by section 35(4) of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 17).
                • Section 216(1)(d): added, on , by section 7 of the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 29).
                • Section 216(2): added, on , by section 26 of the Accident Compensation Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 1).
                • Section 216(2)(c): amended, on , by section 5 of the Accident Compensation Amendment Act (No 2) 2013 (2013 No 105).
                • Section 216(3): added, on , by section 26 of the Accident Compensation Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 1).