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Accident Compensation Act 2001

Miscellaneous provisions - Regulation-making powers

323: Regulations relating to claims for noise-induced hearing loss caused by work-related gradual process

You could also call this:

“Rules for dealing with work-related hearing loss claims”

The Governor-General can make rules about how to handle claims for hearing loss caused by noise at work. These rules are based on what the Minister recommends. Here’s what these rules can do:

They can say how the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) should test your hearing. This is to figure out how much hearing you’ve lost because of noise at your job. They might use a test called pure tone audiometry or other suitable tests.

The rules can also cover other things about these hearing tests.

Before the Minister suggests these rules, they need to talk to people or groups they think should have a say. This depends on what the rules are about.

When these rules are made, they become a type of law called secondary legislation. This means they need to be published in a certain way, as explained in the Legislation Act 2019.

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Part 9 Miscellaneous provisions
Regulation-making powers

323Regulations relating to claims for noise-induced hearing loss caused by work-related gradual process

  1. For the purposes of Part 3, the Governor-General may, on the recommendation of the Minister, by Order in Council, make regulations—

  2. prescribing the conditions under which the Corporation is to apply the pure tone audiometry test or any other appropriate test, under section 61, to assess the percentage of binaural hearing loss that is a personal injury caused by noise exposure within a person's employment:
    1. prescribing any other matters relating to the tests.

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

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

      Notes
      • Section 323(3): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).