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Accident Compensation Act 2001

Accident Compensation Corporation - The Corporation

262: Functions of Corporation

You could also call this:

"ACC's main jobs: helping injured people and making New Zealand safer"

The Corporation has several important jobs to do. You should know about these jobs because they affect how the accident compensation system works in New Zealand.

The Corporation's main tasks are:

To do the duties mentioned in section 165. These duties are about helping people who have been injured.

To try to reduce how often people get hurt and how badly they get hurt. They do this by promoting safety measures.

To check if Māori and other groups of people can easily use the accident compensation system. This helps them find ways to make their services better for injured Māori and other injured people.

To look after money, debts, and risks related to different accounts. This includes managing risks by getting insurance for the Corporation itself.

To do any other jobs that the law says they should do.

The Corporation doesn't provide insurance itself, but it can offer services related to insurance in some cases.

When doing its job, the Corporation must:

Try to reduce how often people get hurt and how much it costs everyone. At the same time, they need to make sure people who are hurt get fair help and money.

Work in a way that doesn't waste money and is efficient.

To help do its job well and fairly, the Corporation can give resources to groups that help ACC claimants.

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Part 7Accident Compensation Corporation
The Corporation

262Functions of Corporation

  1. The functions of the Corporation are to—

  2. carry out the duties referred to in section 165; and
    1. promote measures to reduce the incidence and severity of personal injury in accordance with section 263; and
      1. monitor access to the accident compensation scheme by Māori and identified population groups to identify how to improve delivery of services under this Act to injured Māori and injured persons in those population groups; and
        1. manage assets, liabilities, and risks in relation to the Accounts, including risk management by means of reinsurance or other means; and
          1. carry out such other functions as are conferred on it by this Act, or are ancillary to and consistent with those functions.

            1. To avoid doubt, it is not a function of the Corporation or any Crown entity subsidiary of the Corporation to provide insurance, but it may provide insurance-related services in accordance with section 263 or section 265.

            2. In carrying out its functions, the Corporation must deliver services to claimants and levy payers, as required by this Act,—

            3. in order to minimise the overall incidence and costs to the community of personal injury, while ensuring fair rehabilitation and compensation for loss from personal injury; and
              1. in a manner that is cost-effective and promotes administrative efficiency.

                1. To assist the Corporation in the effective and fair delivery of services, the Corporation may provide resources to assist those organisations providing advocacy services for ACC claimants.

                Notes
                • Section 262(1)(ba): inserted, on , by section 6 of the Accident Compensation (Access Reporting and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2023 (2023 No 26).
                • Section 262(2): amended, on , by section 200 of the Crown Entities Act 2004 (2004 No 115).