Accident Compensation Act 2001

Miscellaneous provisions - Regulation-making powers

333: General power to make regulations

You could also call this:

"Rules for how accident compensation works"

The Governor-General can make rules about accident compensation with the Minister's advice. These rules can do several things:

They can create forms for people to use when they need to apply for something or give notice about something related to accident compensation.

They can set fees for different things, like when you pay your levies in instalments. They can decide how much these fees are, who needs to pay them, and how to pay them. They can also decide when you don't have to pay these fees.

The rules can set interest rates for money owed under the accident compensation law.

The rules can also cover anything else needed to make the accident compensation system work properly.

When the Minister is thinking about making these rules, they can consider any relevant discussions that happened before this law came into effect.

These rules are called 'secondary legislation', which means they are published in a special way as set out in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

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Part 9Miscellaneous provisions
Regulation-making powers

333General power to make regulations

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

  2. prescribing forms of applications, notices, and other documents required for the purposes of this Act, and requiring the use of such forms:
    1. prescribing—
      1. the matters in respect of which fees or charges are payable under this Act, including any administration fee payable in respect of levies paid in instalments:
        1. the amounts of those fees or charges, or the method or rates by which they are to be assessed:
          1. the persons liable for payment of those fees or charges:
            1. the circumstances in which the payment of the whole or any part of those fees or charges may be remitted or waived:
              1. the manner in which the fees or charges are to be paid:
              2. prescribing the rates of interest payable under this Act:
                1. providing for such matters as are contemplated by or necessary for giving full effect to this Act and for its due administration.
                  1. For the purposes of the consultation requirements of this Part, the Minister may take into account any relevant consultation undertaken before the commencement of this section.

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

                  Notes
                  • Section 333(3): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).