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Accident Compensation Act 2001

Management of the Scheme - General levy provisions

237: Corporation may revise decisions

You could also call this:

“ACC can fix mistakes in their decisions about how much you pay”

The Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) can fix mistakes it made when deciding how much levy you need to pay. They can do this at any time, no matter why the mistake happened. There’s a rule in section 243(3) that might limit when they can do this, though.

When ACC fixes a mistake, they can do one of two things. They can change the original decision a bit, or they can completely cancel the old decision and make a new one instead.

If ACC changes a decision or makes a new one to replace an old one, it’s treated as a brand new decision.

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Part 6 Management of the Scheme
General levy provisions

237Corporation may revise decisions

  1. If the Corporation considers it made a decision in error about levies payable by a person, it may, subject to section 243(3), revise the decision at any time, whatever the reason for the error.

  2. A revision may—

  3. amend the original decision; or
    1. revoke the original decision and substitute a new decision.

      1. An amendment to a decision, and a substituted decision, is a fresh decision.