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Accident Compensation Act 2001

Accident Compensation Corporation - The Corporation

261: Relationship between Corporation and subsidiaries

You could also call this:

“The law usually treats ACC and its smaller companies as separate”

When the law talks about the Corporation, it usually doesn’t mean the Corporation’s subsidiaries too. The Corporation is a main organisation, and its subsidiaries are smaller organisations that it owns. The law treats them separately most of the time.

However, there are two cases when the law might include the subsidiaries when it mentions the Corporation:

  1. If this Act specifically says so in another part.
  2. If the Corporation gives some of its responsibilities to a subsidiary.

So, unless one of these two things happens, when you read about ‘the Corporation’ in this law, it’s just talking about the main organisation, not its subsidiaries.

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The Corporation

261Relationship between Corporation and subsidiaries

  1. Except as otherwise specified in this Act or as required by virtue of any delegation to a Crown entity subsidiary of the Corporation, a reference in this Act to the Corporation is not to be read as including a reference to any Crown entity subsidiary of the Corporation.

Notes
  • Section 261: amended, on , by section 200 of the Crown Entities Act 2004 (2004 No 115).