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Accident Compensation Act 2001

Management of the Scheme - Non-Earners' Account

227: Application and source of funds

You could also call this:

"How the government pays for help when people who aren't working get hurt"

The Non-Earners' Account is set up to pay for help given to people who aren't working and get hurt, but not in a car accident or from medical treatment. The money for this account comes from the government.

This account pays for several things:

  • Help for non-working people who get hurt (not in car accidents or from medical treatment)
  • Help for people working for foreign representatives who get hurt at work
  • Some other types of help that the law says must be paid from this account
  • Help for certain people who would have gotten help from this account under an older law
  • Running the account
  • Any other spending the law allows

The government can tell the group in charge (the Corporation) to give back extra money in the account. This rule is not limited by another law called the Crown Entities Act 2004.

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Part 6Management of the Scheme
Non-Earners' Account

227Application and source of funds

  1. The purpose of the Non-Earners' Account is to finance entitlements provided under this Act in respect of personal injury (other than motor vehicle injury or treatment injury) to non-earners.

  2. The funds for the Non-Earners' Account are to be derived from appropriations by Parliament to the Non-Earners' Account.

  3. The funds in the Non-Earners' Account must be applied to meet the costs of—

  4. entitlements in respect of non-earners who have cover for personal injury (other than motor vehicle injury or treatment injury); and
    1. entitlements in respect of employees of foreign representatives who suffer work-related personal injury in their employment with that foreign representative; and
      1. entitlements required to be funded in accordance with section 228(2)(b); and
        1. entitlements that are required to be provided in accordance with Part 11 in respect of persons whose entitlements would have been provided from the Non-Earner's Account under the Accident Insurance Act 1998; and
          1. administering the Account; and
            1. any other expenditure authorised by this Act.

              1. The Minister may direct the Corporation to repay to the Crown any surplus funds held in the Non-Earners' Account.

              2. This section is not limited by any provision in the Crown Entities Act 2004.

              Notes
              • Section 227(1): amended, on , by section 39 of the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act (No 2) 2005 (2005 No 45).
              • Section 227(3)(a): amended, on , by section 39 of the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act (No 2) 2005 (2005 No 45).
              • Section 227(4): substituted, on , by section 200 of the Crown Entities Act 2004 (2004 No 115).
              • Section 227(5): added, on , by section 200 of the Crown Entities Act 2004 (2004 No 115).