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Accident Compensation Act 2001

Management of the Scheme - Work Account

174D: Establishment of workplace incentive programmes

You could also call this:

“Rules for creating a programme to encourage safer workplaces”

The Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) can create a workplace incentive programme. This programme will have rules about who can join and how it works. If you’re an employer or work for yourself, you might be able to take part.

The programme will explain how ACC can change the money you pay them (called levies) if you join. It will say how long these changes last and how much they might be.

The programme might also include checks on the people who join. It can decide the order of these checks, who can do them, and how often they happen. The checks might need to follow special guidelines made by ACC.

ACC can use information from other places when making the programme or the guidelines for checks. They have to follow certain rules when they do this.

The workplace incentive programme is a type of law. This means it has to be shared with the public in a specific way.

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Part 6 Management of the Scheme
Work Account

174DEstablishment of workplace incentive programmes

  1. The Corporation may establish a workplace incentive programme.

  2. A workplace incentive programme must set out the terms and conditions of the programme, including—

  3. any criteria that must be met before an employer or a self-employed person may participate in the programme; and
    1. the basis and conditions on which, and periods for which, Work Account levies may be adjusted for participants in the programme; and
      1. the level or levels of levy adjustment that may apply to participants in the programme.

        1. Without limiting subsection (2), a workplace incentive programme may provide for audits or assessments of participants in the programme, including—

        2. the order in which applications for audits or assessments are to be dealt with:
          1. the approval of auditors and assessors:
            1. requirements that audits or assessments be conducted in accordance with an audit tool or audit tools developed or approved by the Corporation:
              1. the frequency of audits or assessments and the circumstances under which additional audits or assessments may be required.

                1. A workplace incentive programme, and an audit tool developed for the purposes of subsection (3)(c), may incorporate by reference any material referred to in section 176, and that section and section 177 apply as if the programme were regulations made for the purposes of section 175, the audit tool were an audit tool referred to in section 175(4), and the reference to the Minister in section 176(3) were a reference to the Corporation.

                2. A workplace incentive programme is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

                Notes
                • Section 174D: inserted, on , by section 8 of the Accident Compensation Amendment Act 2015 (2015 No 71).
                • Section 174D(1): amended, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
                • Section 174D(2): amended, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
                • Section 174D(3): amended, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
                • Section 174D(4): amended, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
                • Section 174D(5): replaced, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).