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Accident Compensation Act 2001

Management of the Scheme - Treatment Injury Account

229: Levy categories and rates

You could also call this:

"Rules for setting up and paying special injury-related fees"

You need to know about how levies are set for the Treatment Injury Account. Levies are like payments that some people or groups have to make.

The government can make rules about these levies. These rules can say who has to pay the levies and how much they have to pay. They might group people based on their job, where they work, or what they specialise in.

The rules will say exactly who needs to pay the levies. They will also say how much needs to be paid.

The levies are meant to cover all the costs of claims for treatment injuries. This means that the money collected should be enough to pay for all the injuries that happen, unless the Minister says otherwise.

These levies don't cover treatment injuries that happened before a certain date. The government will decide what this date is.

Each levy is for a specific time period that the government sets.

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Part 6Management of the Scheme
Treatment Injury Account

229Levy categories and rates

  1. For the purposes of this section, regulations made under this Act may—

  2. prescribe levies in relation to treatment injury:
    1. prescribe classes of persons or organisations who are liable to pay levies under this section:
      1. define those classes according to the profession concerned, the nature of the employment of the professional, any areas of specialisation, any areas in which the person does not practise, or on any other basis specified in the regulations.

        1. Levies are payable by such persons or classes of persons or organisations as may be specified for the purpose by regulations made under this Act, and those levies are payable at a rate or rates prescribed by the regulations.

        2. If levies are so payable, the levies must be calculated so that the cost of all claims (of the type covered by the levy) under the Treatment Injury Account is to be fully funded, unless the Minister otherwise directs under section 103 of the Crown Entities Act 2004.

        3. Claims referred to in subsection (3) do not include treatment injury suffered before the prescribed date from which premiums become payable under this section.

        4. A levy must relate to a prescribed period.

        Notes
        • Section 229(1)(a): substituted, on , by section 41(1) of the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act (No 2) 2005 (2005 No 45).
        • Section 229(3): amended, on , by section 42 of the Crown Entities Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 51).
        • Section 229(3): amended, on , by section 13(1) of the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 8).
        • Section 229(4): amended, on , by section 41(2) of the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act (No 2) 2005 (2005 No 45).