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Accident Compensation Act 2001

Miscellaneous provisions - Regulation-making powers

322: Regulations relating to definitions

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“Rules for explaining important words in this law”

The Governor-General can make rules to explain what certain words mean in this law. These words include ‘acute admission’, ‘counsellor’, ‘impairment’, ‘place of education’, ‘registered health professional’, ‘treatment provider’, and ‘health occupational group’. The Governor-General can also work with the Minister of Health to define what ‘public health acute services’ means.

Before making these rules, the Minister needs to talk to people or groups that they think should have a say. This is to make sure the rules are fair and make sense.

These rules are called ‘secondary legislation’. This means they are important legal documents that need to be published in a special way. You can find out more about how they are published in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

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Part 9 Miscellaneous provisions
Regulation-making powers

322Regulations relating to definitions

  1. The Governor-General may, on the recommendation of the Minister, by Order in Council, make regulations—

  2. defining acute admission for the purposes of this Act:
    1. defining counsellor for the purposes of this Act:
      1. defining impairment for the purposes of this Act:
        1. prescribing a place of education for the purposes of this Act:
          1. defining a type or types of registered health professional for the purposes of this Act:
            1. defining a type or types of treatment provider for the purposes of this Act:
              1. defining a health occupational group or part of a health occupational group for the purposes of this Act.

                  1. The Governor-General may, on the recommendation of the Minister and the Minister of Health, by Order in Council, make regulations defining public health acute services for the purposes of this Act.

                  2. The Minister may not make any recommendation under subsection (1) or subsection (2) without first consulting the persons or organisations the Minister considers appropriate, having regard to the subject matter of the proposed regulations.

                  3. Regulations under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

                  Notes
                  • Section 322(1)(e): replaced, on , by section 52(1) of the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act (No 2) 2005 (2005 No 45).
                  • Section 322(1)(f): replaced, on , by section 52(1) of the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act (No 2) 2005 (2005 No 45).
                  • Section 322(1)(fa): inserted, on , by section 52(1) of the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act (No 2) 2005 (2005 No 45).
                  • Section 322(1)(g): repealed, on , by section 52(2) of the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act (No 2) 2005 (2005 No 45).
                  • Section 322(4): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).