If you're not the person who got hurt, but you're helping to provide treatment or other benefits for someone who was injured, this law applies to you too. It's about the money that ACC (the Accident Compensation Corporation) gives to people or groups to help with treatment or other things after an injury.

The law says that if you're one of these helpers (called a 'third party'), and ACC gives you money to provide treatment or other benefits, it's treated the same as if ACC had given that money directly to the injured person. This means that the same rules about how the money can be used and what happens if it's not used correctly apply to you, just as they would to the injured person.

This rule makes sure that everyone follows the same rules about ACC money, whether they're the person who got hurt or someone helping them.