Workplace safety
This page contains different parts of laws about Workplace safety, within the topic of Work and jobs.
Related Plain Language Law
Oranga Tamariki Act 1989
Telling the boss what happened after a medical check
57: Report to chief executive following medical examination
Oranga Tamariki Act 1989
Help for young people hurt while doing community work: accident compensation applies
302: Application of Accident Compensation Act 2001 to young persons performing work under community work order
Income Tax Act 2007
Employer-provided health and safety benefits that aren't taxed
CX 24: Benefits related to health or safety
Income Tax Act 2007
Rules for certain insurance payments made before July 2000
CZ 15: Accident insurance contracts before 1 July 2000
Income Tax Act 2007
No tax on workplace health and safety payments
CW 17D: Payments related to health or safety
Search and Surveillance Act 2012
Changes are made to the law that helps keep health workers competent and safe.
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
No smoking or vaping allowed at work
5: Smoking and vaping in workplaces prohibited
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Employers can allow smoking or vaping in work vehicles if all users agree in writing.
5A: Employer may permit smoking or vaping in vehicle with consent of users
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
What bosses must do to keep their workplace smokefree
7: Duties of employer
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
What to do if someone is smoking or vaping at work when they shouldn't be
15: Complaints relating to smoking or vaping in workplace
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
This law does not change workplace health and safety rules.
20A: Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 not affected
Crown Minerals Act 1991
You can't start an activity until it's safe and approved under the rules.
33A: Exercise of permit conditional on authorisation
Crown Minerals Act 1991
The health and safety regulator must tell the boss if you break health and safety rules.
33B: Health and Safety regulator to notify chief executive of breaches of legislation
Crown Minerals Act 1991
Changing who runs a mining or drilling project needs the Minister's approval first
41C: Change of permit operator
Electricity Act 1992
This part used to explain why the law was made, but it's no longer in the law
62A: Purpose of this Part
Electricity Act 1992
The rule about checking if people follow electricity rules has been removed
62M: Commission must monitor compliance
Electricity Act 1992
The Commission can use information it gets from rules or regulations.
Electricity Act 1992
This provision names the law and explains when it starts
1: Short Title and commencement
Electricity Act 1992
This law applies to everyone, including the government
3: Act to bind the Crown
Electricity Act 1992
Rules for keeping people safe around electricity and what to do when accidents happen
Electricity Act 1992
The Minister can name electricity makers as special operators
4A: Declaration of electricity generators as electricity operators
Electricity Act 1992
WorkSafe makes sure electricity is safe and people follow the rules
5: Functions of WorkSafe
Electricity Act 1992
WorkSafe can check electrical things to make sure they're safe
6: Inspection of works, etc
Electricity Act 1992
Inspector writes report and gives copies to everyone who needs it
7: Report to be compiled on inspection
Electricity Act 1992
WorkSafe can check and fix dangerous electrical things to keep you safe
8: Special powers of WorkSafe
Electricity Act 1992
How to challenge WorkSafe's decisions about electricity rules
9: Objections to WorkSafe's requirements
Electricity Act 1992
Notices or requirements are paused if you object, with some exceptions
10: Effect of notice or requirement pending hearing
Electricity Act 1992
How a hearing works when someone disagrees with an electricity notice
11: Procedure on hearing of objection
Electricity Act 1992
WorkSafe can make you follow safety rules right away if it's dangerous
13: WorkSafe may require immediate compliance
Electricity Act 1992
Rules for telling people about electrical accidents
16: Notification of accidents
Electricity Act 1992
Sharing information about electricity accidents
16A: Transfer of accident information
Electricity Act 1992
Don't touch the accident scene without permission
17: Interference with scene of accident
Electricity Act 1992
WorkSafe can investigate accidents to find out what happened
18: Inquiries into accidents
Electricity Act 1992
You must help WorkSafe do their job and check things
19: Assistance to WorkSafe
Electricity Act 1992
Rules for people who work with electricity and how they can use or fix power lines on different lands
Electricity Act 1992
You can go onto land to check or fix electrical equipment that's already there
23: Rights of entry in respect of existing works
Electricity Act 1992
Power line owners must tell landowners before they come to check their equipment
23B: Line owner must give notice of intention to inspect or operate existing works
Electricity Act 1992
Entering someone's property without notice during electrical emergencies
23C: Notice in emergencies
Electricity Act 1992
Rules for electricity companies working on roads
24: Construction or maintenance of works on roads
Electricity Act 1992
Electricity companies must tell others before they work on roads
25: Notice to be given before work undertaken
Electricity Act 1992
Breaking electricity rules can lead to fines and compensation payments
26: Offence
Electricity Act 1992
You can challenge rules set for your electricity work if you think they're unfair
27: Appeals in relation to conditions imposed
Electricity Act 1992
How the court decides appeals about electricity decisions
28: Determination of appeals
Electricity Act 1992
Rules for electricity companies working on level crossings
31: Rights of entry in respect of level crossings
Electricity Act 1992
Local authorities can ask you to move electrical works on roads
32: Local authority, etc, may require works to be moved
Electricity Act 1992
Who pays for electrical work required by law
33: Cost of work required under section 32
Electricity Act 1992
Parts of this law are more important than a road law from 1989
34: Government Roading Powers Act 1989 not to apply
Electricity Act 1992
Private land owners can move electrical works on their property if they follow certain rules
35: Owners and occupiers of private land may move works
Electricity Act 1992
WorkSafe makes rules to keep people safe around electricity
36: Issue of electrical code of practice
Electricity Act 1992
Electrical codes can include official standards
37: Code may incorporate official standards by reference
Electricity Act 1992
Minister must agree to electrical rules after asking people what they think
38: Code to be approved by Minister
Electricity Act 1992
WorkSafe makes sure everyone can see or buy the electrical safety rules
39: Availability of codes
Electricity Act 1992
WorkSafe can quickly change electrical safety rules in emergencies
40: Emergency amendment of code
Electricity Act 1992
How to refer to the rules for safe electrical work
41: Citation of code
Electricity Act 1992
How to prove an electrical code of practice is real in court
42: Proof of code
Electricity Act 1992
Old electrical rules are still used under the new law
43: Codes promulgated under Electricity Act 1968
Electricity Act 1992
Getting paid if electrical work hurts your land
57: Compensation for damage
Electricity Act 1992
Telling WorkSafe about new electrical projects
59: Returns relating to construction of works, etc
Electricity Act 1992
Rules for giving out safe and good electricity
60: Standards for electricity supply
Electricity Act 1992
Rules to keep people safe when using electricity
61: Safety requirements
Electricity Act 1992
This rule about keeping the power on doesn't exist anymore
62: Continuance of supply
Electricity Act 1992
This part of the law was removed in 1994 and doesn't apply anymore
73: Expiry of this Part
Electricity Act 1992
Rules about who can do electrical work and when special permission is needed
Electricity Act 1992
The Board can give special permission to skip some rules for electrical work
75: Board may exempt person or class of persons from section 74
Electricity Act 1992
You can do some electrical work if someone qualified watches over you
76: Exemption for work done under supervision
Electricity Act 1992
Rules for doing your own electrical wiring at home
79: Exemption for domestic electrical wiring work
Electricity Act 1992
Rules for fixing your own home appliances safely
80: Exemption for maintenance of domestic appliances
Electricity Act 1992
Checking and approving electrical work before it's used
82: Testing, certification, and inspection
Electricity Act 1992
Inspectors can enter buildings to check electrical work for safety
83: Power of entry
Electricity Act 1992
Employer licences let workers do special electrical jobs
117: Prescribed electrical work may be done under employer licence
Electricity Act 1992
How the Board can change or take away a company's permission to do electrical work
120: Cancellation, suspension, and other actions in relation to employer licences
Electricity Act 1992
The Board can check workplaces to make sure electrical work is safe and follows the rules
123: Powers of inspection
Electricity Act 1992
Things electrical workers can get in trouble for
143: Disciplinary offence
Electricity Act 1992
The Secretary chooses someone to check out complaints
145: Secretary must appoint investigator
Electricity Act 1992
Investigators can check electrical work and ask questions to make sure it's safe
147: Investigator's powers
Electricity Act 1992
The Board's job is to keep electrical work safe and fair in New Zealand
149: Functions of Board
Electricity Act 1992
Groups that used to check complaints about electricity no longer exist
154: Complaints Assessment Committees
Electricity Act 1992
The law says someone must check if the electricity rules are working well
158: Review of operation of Act
Electricity Act 1992
Electricity Act 1992
Rules about when people can enter places for electricity-related reasons
Electricity Act 1992
Rules for entering someone's property to work on electricity
159: Conditions relating to power to enter land or premises
Electricity Act 1992
Don't pretend to be licensed or registered for electrical work if you're not
161: Unlicensed or unregistered person must not claim to be licensed or registered
Electricity Act 1992
You can get in trouble for doing electrical work you're not allowed to do
162: Offence to engage in prescribed electrical work in breach of section 74
Electricity Act 1992
It's against the law to hire someone to do electrical work if they're not allowed to
163: Offence to employ person to engage in prescribed electrical work in breach of section 74
Electricity Act 1992
Company bosses can get in trouble if their company breaks the rules
164: Directors and officers of bodies corporate
Electricity Act 1992
Time limit for reporting electrical offences
165: Time for filing charging document
Electricity Act 1992
Rules for sending notices about Māori land for electricity matters
168: Notices in relation to Maori land
Electricity Act 1992
Rules about electricity safety and standards in New Zealand
169: Regulations
Electricity Act 1992
Rules for keeping people safe when working with electricity
169A: Regulations that prescribe requirements for safety management systems
Electricity Act 1992
Rules for staying safe when working with electricity
169B: Miscellaneous provisions relating to regulations that prescribe requirements for safety management systems
Electricity Act 1992
This rule about giving information to the Secretary no longer applies
171: Information to be supplied to Secretary
Electricity Act 1992
Corrections Act 2004
Rules for corrections officers using special weapons that don't kill, but can hurt or stop someone
85: Use of less-lethal weapons
Building Act 2004
The boss can share important information about building problems with groups that look after building workers.
207O: Sharing evidence or information with occupational bodies
Land Transport Act 1998
How courts decide penalties for breaking work time and logbook rules
79PA: Matters to be taken into account in imposing penalty for offence against section 79O
Land Transport Act 1998
Rules for everyone involved in roads and transport
4: General requirements for participants in land transport system
Land Transport Act 1998
Breaking the rules about work time and rest for certain drivers
79O: Failure to comply with prescribed work time restrictions or rest time requirements
Land Transport Act 1998
Ways to defend yourself if you're accused of working too long
79P: Defences to work time offences
Employment Relations Act 2000
When your boss treats you unfairly because of a health and safety reason that's not okay.
110A: Adverse conduct for prohibited health and safety reason
Employment Relations Act 2000
You can tell the Authority if you don't agree with a notice telling you to fix something at work.
223E: Objection to improvement notice
Employment Relations Act 2000
If you don't follow the notice to make things better, you might have to pay money as a punishment.
223F: Penalty
Employment Relations Act 2000
A Labour Inspector can take back a notice telling someone to fix something at work, but they can still give a new notice about the same problem.
223G: Withdrawal of improvement notice
Employment Relations Act 2000
Secret voting is not needed when workers want to stop work because it's not safe or healthy.
82C: When requirement for secret ballot does not apply
Employment Relations Act 2000
When work is not safe, employees can strike and employers can lock out staff for health reasons.
84: Lawful strikes and lockouts on grounds of safety or health
Employment Relations Act 2000
What Labour Inspectors Must Do When Visiting Workplaces
233: Obligations of Labour Inspectors
Employment Relations Act 2000
You can get in big trouble if you stop or trick someone who checks if workplaces are safe and fair
235: Obstruction
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Rules for keeping people safe at work and explaining important words
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
This provision explains the main goals of the law for keeping people safe at work
3: Purpose
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Rules for managing changes to the law
4: Transitional, savings, and related provisions
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
How health and safety rules apply to the Armed Forces
7: Application of Act to Armed Forces
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
This Act applies to aircraft during operation, including domestic flights and some international flights with NZ-employed workers
9: Application of Act to aircraft in operation
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Ships covered by this law: New Zealand ships worldwide and foreign ships in NZ waters
10: Application of Act to ships
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
This Act covers work in specific sea areas and offshore travel around New Zealand
11: Application of Act in exclusive economic zone and in or on continental shelf
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Rules for dangerous equipment apply even outside the workplace
12: Application of Act to prescribed high-risk plant
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
This part explains the important words used in the law about safety at work
16: Interpretation
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Who counts as a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU)
17: Meaning of PCBU
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Who counts as a worker under this law
19: Meaning of worker
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
What counts as a workplace under health and safety law
20: Meaning of workplace
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Explanation of what 'supply' means in this act
21: Meaning of supply
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Explaining what 'reasonably practicable' means for workplace safety
22: Meaning of reasonably practicable
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Explaining what counts as a serious work-related injury or illness
23: Meaning of notifiable injury or illness
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
What counts as a dangerous event at work that must be reported
24: Meaning of notifiable incident
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
What counts as a serious work-related event that must be reported
25: Meaning of notifiable event
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Examples in this law help explain but don't limit or override the actual rules
26: Status of examples
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Employers can't charge workers for workplace health and safety
27: PCBU must not levy workers
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
You can't make agreements that avoid or change this law
28: No contracting out
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Business owners must ensure workers' and others' safety and health
36: Primary duty of care
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
PCBUs must ensure workplace safety for all legal visitors
37: Duty of PCBU who manages or controls workplace
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Responsibility to keep workplace equipment safe
38: Duty of PCBU who manages or controls fixtures, fittings, or plant at workplaces
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Designers must ensure work-related products are safe for all users
39: Duty of PCBU who designs plant, substances, or structures
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Manufacturers must ensure workplace products are safe for users
40: Duty of PCBU who manufactures plant, substances, or structures
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Importers must ensure safety of work-related machines, chemicals, and structures
41: Duty of PCBU who imports plant, substances, or structures
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Businesses must ensure safety of supplied workplace equipment and materials
42: Duty of PCBU who supplies plant, substances, or structures
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Responsibilities when installing, building, or setting up workplace equipment or structures
43: Duty of PCBU who installs, constructs, or commissions plant or structures
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Officers must ensure their organisation follows health and safety laws
44: Duty of officers
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Workers' responsibilities for health and safety at work
45: Duties of workers
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Stay safe and follow instructions at work to protect yourself and others
46: Duties of other persons at workplace
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Punishment for knowingly risking someone's life or health at work
47: Offence of reckless conduct in respect of duty
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Penalties for not following health and safety duties that risk lives or cause serious harm
48: Offence of failing to comply with duty that exposes individual to risk of death or serious injury or serious illness
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Penalties for not meeting workplace health and safety responsibilities
49: Offence of failing to comply with duty
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Rules about who is responsible when something goes wrong at work
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Officers can be held responsible for breaching their duties, even if their organisation isn't
50: Liability of officers
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Volunteers are not liable for most offences but must follow worker and workplace safety rules
51: Liability of volunteers
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Certain elected or appointed officials are protected from health and safety liability
52: Liability of certain office holders
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Protection from liability when trying to prevent harm to others
53: Actions taken to prevent harm
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
You can be guilty of certain health and safety offences without intending to commit them
54: Proof of intention not required for certain offences
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Workers' rights and safety: How to talk about problems and stay safe at work
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
You must talk with workers about health and safety matters
58: Duty to engage with workers
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
How to involve workers in health and safety discussions
59: Nature of engagement
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
When you must talk with workers about health and safety at work
60: When engagement is required
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Businesses must involve workers in improving workplace health and safety
61: Duty to have worker participation practices
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
How workers can request and employers must arrange health and safety representative elections
62: Election of health and safety representatives
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
How work groups are set up for health and safety representation
64: Determination of work groups
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Extra rules for health and safety in mining
68: Further provisions relating to mining sector
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Health and safety reps can issue notices to address workplace safety concerns
69: Provisional improvement notices
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Training needed before health and safety reps can issue improvement notices
70: Training requirements relating to issue of provisional improvement notice
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Rules for health and safety reps when giving out notices about possible rule-breaking
71: Requirements relating to provisional improvement notices
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Notices can include advice on how to fix workplace safety issues
72: Provisional improvement notice may include recommendations to remedy contravention
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Health and safety reps can make small changes to clarify or correct a provisional improvement notice
73: Minor changes to provisional improvement notice
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Health and safety reps: How to properly issue a provisional improvement notice
74: Issue of provisional improvement notice
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
How health and safety reps can cancel an improvement notice they issued
75: Cancellation of provisional improvement notice
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Display the improvement notice where workers can see it
76: Display of provisional improvement notice
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Small mistakes don't make a notice invalid
77: Irregularities or defects in notice
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Penalties for not following a temporary safety improvement order
78: Offence relating to breach of provisional improvement notice
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
How to ask for a review of a workplace safety notice
79: Review of provisional improvement notice
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Inspector must review notice when someone asks
80: Regulator must ensure inspector reviews notice
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Inspector reviews and decides on a provisional improvement notice
81: Decision of inspector on review of provisional improvement notice
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
What 'cease work' means in this law
82: Meaning of cease work
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
You can stop working if you believe it's seriously dangerous
83: Right of worker to cease or refuse to carry out unsafe work
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Safety rep can stop dangerous work to prevent serious harm
84: Health and safety representative may direct unsafe work to cease
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Your employer can assign you safe, alternative work if your usual job is unsafe
86: Alternative work
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
WorkSafe can help solve problems about stopping work for safety reasons
87: Regulator may assist to resolve issues relating to cessation of work
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
What counts as unfair treatment due to health and safety actions or views
88: Meaning of adverse conduct
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
What counts as an unfair reason for treating workers badly over health and safety matters
89: Meaning of prohibited health and safety reason
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
You can't treat people badly for health and safety reasons
90: Prohibition on adverse conduct
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Don't encourage or help others to mistreat workers for health and safety actions
91: Prohibition on requesting, instructing, inducing, encouraging, authorising, or assisting adverse conduct
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
You can't force or pressure others about health and safety duties
92: Prohibition on coercion or inducement
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Don't lie about health and safety rights or processes
93: Misrepresentation
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
How to prove unfair treatment due to health and safety concerns at work
94: Proof of adverse conduct
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Rules about taking legal action when someone treats workers unfairly for speaking up about safety
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Legal action for unfair treatment over health and safety matters
95: Civil proceedings in relation to engaging in or inducing adverse or coercive conduct
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
How to start a legal case about unfair treatment at work due to health and safety concerns
96: Procedure for civil proceedings for adverse conduct
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Rules about how workers and bosses work together to stay safe
Outer Space and High-altitude Activities Act 2017
Changes are made to the law that keeps people safe at work.
Outer Space and High-altitude Activities Act 2017
Changing health and safety laws to include space and high-altitude activities
92: Amendment to Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Social Security Act 2018
What counts as a proper drug test according to the law
148: Compliant drug test defined
Social Security Act 2018
Health and safety laws apply to you when you're doing work as part of a job search or as a beneficiary
181: Application of health and safety legislation, etc
Accident Compensation Act 2001
What words mean in this law about accidents and injuries
6: Interpretation
Accident Compensation Act 2001
This part explains important words used in the law about accidents and injuries
19: Key terms in this Part
Accident Compensation Act 2001
ACC covers most injuries in New Zealand, but not all mental injuries
20: Cover for personal injury suffered in New Zealand (except mental injury caused by certain criminal acts or work-related mental injury)
Accident Compensation Act 2001
What counts as getting hurt or injured under the law
26: Personal injury
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Getting hurt at work or while doing job-related tasks
28: Work-related personal injury
Accident Compensation Act 2001
When you get hurt at work and in a car: deciding what type of injury it is
29: Personal injury that is both work-related and motor vehicle injury
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Work injuries that happen slowly over time
30: Personal injury caused by work-related gradual process, disease, or infection
Accident Compensation Act 2001
A group that helped with slow-developing work health problems no longer exists
31: Ministerial advisory panel on work-related gradual process, disease, or infection
Accident Compensation Act 2001
When the law says you got hurt at work over time
37: Date on which person is to be regarded as suffering personal injury caused by work-related gradual process, disease, or infection
Accident Compensation Act 2001
ACC decides if you can get help for certain work injuries
60: Decision on claim for Schedule 2 injury
Accident Compensation Act 2001
How ACC decides if they'll cover your hearing loss from noisy work
61: Decision on claim for noise-induced hearing loss caused by work-related gradual process
Accident Compensation Act 2001
ACC must tell you their decision about your claim
64: Corporation must give notice of decisions
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Employers must help injured workers return to work
71: Employer's obligations in relation to rehabilitation
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Getting help before and after agreeing on your rehabilitation plan
76: Provision of rehabilitation before and after individual rehabilitation plan agreed
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Figuring out what you need to get better and putting it in a plan
77: Assessment of needs and content of plan
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Checking what help you need to return to work after an injury
89: Assessment of claimant's vocational rehabilitation needs
Accident Compensation Act 2001
A special doctor checks if you can work after an injury
93: Medical assessor
Accident Compensation Act 2001
How a doctor checks your injuries and health for ACC
95: Conduct of initial medical assessment
Accident Compensation Act 2001
The employer must pay money to a hurt worker for the first week
Accident Compensation Act 2001
You can get money for the first week you miss work due to an injury at work
97: Employee's right to receive first week compensation
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Your boss must pay you for the first week you're off work if you get hurt at work
98: Employer's duty to pay first week compensation
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Checking if you can work after an accident
108: Assessment of claimant's vocational independence
Accident Compensation Act 2001
How to solve problems and make things fair when people don't agree
Accident Compensation Act 2001
ACC keeps different accounts for different types of injuries and claims
166: Separate Accounts
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Where the money comes from and goes to for work injuries
167: Application and source of funds
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Employers must pay special money to help with work accidents
168: Employers to pay levies
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Private house helpers must pay money to ACC for work safety
168A: Private domestic workers to pay levies
Accident Compensation Act 2001
How much money you pay for work accident insurance
169: Rates of levies
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Rules for calculating self-employed earnings for injury compensation
169A: Limit on offsets in case of earnings as self-employed person
Accident Compensation Act 2001
How ACC groups jobs to set work accident insurance costs
170: Classification of industries or risks
Accident Compensation Act 2001
No Work Account levy on wages above a set limit
172: Work Account levy not payable on earnings of employee over specified maximum
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Self-employed people don't pay extra levy on money earned above a set limit
172A: Work Account levy not payable on earnings of self-employed person over specified maximum
Accident Compensation Act 2001
The government guesses how much you might owe for workplace accidents
173: Estimation of levy
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Tell ACC if your employees' earnings change a lot
174: Employer to notify increase or decrease of relevant employee earnings
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Work Account levies can go up if your workplace safety isn't good enough
175: Risk adjustment of Work Account levies
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Using information from other sources in Work Account rules
176: Incorporation by reference
Accident Compensation Act 2001
ACC must let people see how they check businesses for safety
177: Copy of audit tool and material incorporated by reference to be available to public
Accident Compensation Act 2001
How ACC can raise fees for employers with more worker injuries than usual
178: Criteria for upward adjustment of levies
Accident Compensation Act 2001
How ACC decides if they need to check your workplace safety
179: Process for Corporation to decide whether to require audit
Accident Compensation Act 2001
What happens when your workplace is checked or if you don't let it be checked
180: Effect of audit or refusal to allow audit
Accident Compensation Act 2001
This section explains the special words used when talking about employers who help ACC
181: Interpretation
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Explaining the goals of rules about employers taking care of injured workers
182: Objectives of sections 181 to 189
Accident Compensation Act 2001
ACC and employers must make a plan to help injured workers
183: Framework to be established
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Special deals between employers and ACC about paying for worker injuries
184: Accreditation agreements
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Rules for employers to become approved ACC partners for workplace injuries
185: Accreditation requirements
Accident Compensation Act 2001
ACC can become a special employer for its own workers
186: Corporation may be accredited employer
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Approved workplaces must help injured workers
187: Accredited employers to provide entitlements
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Keeping an eye on special employers to make sure they follow the rules
188: Monitoring and audit
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Accredited employers must report to ACC and inform employees about claim processes
189: Reporting and information
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Allowing shareholders who work in their company to buy weekly payments if they get hurt
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Shareholder-employees can buy the right to get paid if they get hurt at work
190: Purchase of weekly compensation by shareholder-employees
Accident Compensation Act 2001
How buying weekly compensation affects your employer's Work Account levy payment
191: Effect on Work Account levy
Accident Compensation Act 2001
This section used to explain how money was managed for special claims, but it's no longer used
192: Application and source of funds
Accident Compensation Act 2001
This rule about paying for old accident claims no longer exists
193: Liability to pay Residual Claims levy
Accident Compensation Act 2001
This rule about grouping jobs by danger level is no longer used
195: Classification of industries or risk
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Old rules about sharing costs between employers no longer apply
198: Residual Claims levy where 2 or more employers
Accident Compensation Act 2001
This part of the law about getting employers more involved was removed in 2010
199: Promotion of employer involvement
Accident Compensation Act 2001
There used to be a limit on how much you had to pay for accident insurance
200: Residual Claims levy not payable on earnings over specified maximum
Accident Compensation Act 2001
This rule about where money came from and how it was used is no longer part of the law
201: Application and source of funds
Accident Compensation Act 2001
How much self-employed people pay for accident insurance has changed
203: Rate of levies
Accident Compensation Act 2001
How the law used to group different jobs for work safety is no longer part of this Act
205: Classification of industries or risk
Accident Compensation Act 2001
This rule about changing work costs for self-employed people based on risk no longer exists
206A: Risk adjustment of Self-Employed Work Account levy
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Old rule about using outside information in work rules is no longer used
206B: Incorporation by reference
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Removed rule about sharing extra information mentioned in the law
206C: Copy of material incorporated by reference to be available to public
Accident Compensation Act 2001
There's a limit on how much self-employed people have to pay for work accident insurance
207: Self-employed Work Account levy not payable on earnings over specified maximum
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Self-employed people can buy weekly payments if they get hurt
Accident Compensation Act 2001
You can buy weekly money protection from ACC if you work for yourself
208: Purchase of weekly compensation by self-employed persons
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Self-employed people pay fees for weekly accident payouts
211: Levies for self-employed persons who purchase weekly compensation
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Different charges for different types of vehicles and owners
216: Levy categories
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Workers must pay money to help with accidents
219: Earners to pay levies
Accident Compensation Act 2001
How much money you need to pay for accident insurance
220: Rate of levies
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Money taken from your pay to help with accident costs
221: Collection of levies by deduction from employee earnings
Accident Compensation Act 2001
You pay extra money when you buy weekly payments for time off work
225: Levies for persons who purchase weekly compensation
Accident Compensation Act 2001
How the government pays for help when people who aren't working get hurt
227: Application and source of funds
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Rules for setting up and paying special injury-related fees
229: Levy categories and rates
Accident Compensation Act 2001
How you pay money to help cover treatment injuries
230: Collection of levies
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Employers must tell ACC when they stop having workers or close their business
232: Work Account levy payable by employers on disposal or cessation of business or when ceasing to employ
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Self-employed people who stop working must report earnings and pay ACC levies
233: Levies payable to Corporation by self-employed person who ceases to derive earnings as such
Accident Compensation Act 2001
ACC creates new job risk categories and sets fees for unlisted work types
239: Corporation to define risk classification and decide levy if activity not classified by regulations
Accident Compensation Act 2001
The power to decide how much money people or companies should pay as a levy
243: Power to assess levies
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Who collects ACC payments and fees
245: Agent to whom levies may be paid
Accident Compensation Act 2001
ACC can ask for information to figure out how much money people owe
246: Information available to Corporation
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Extra charges for late ACC payments
250: Penalties and interest due to Corporation in respect of unpaid levies
Civil Aviation Act 2023
Drugs and alcohol: operators must create a plan to keep workers safe.
114: DAMP operator must develop DAMP
Civil Aviation Act 2023
Workers in important safety jobs may be randomly tested for drugs and alcohol with their consent
115: Random testing by DAMP operator
Civil Aviation Act 2023
The Director can ask some workers to take a drug or alcohol test to keep people safe
116: Director testing
Civil Aviation Act 2023
What happens if a worker won't take a drug test or doesn't get a clear result
117: What happens if worker refuses consent or test result is not negative
Civil Aviation Act 2023
Test results can only be used in court cases about aviation or workplace safety laws.
119: Test results only to be used in certain prosecutions
Civil Aviation Act 2023
What a non-disturbance notice must say to you
303: Content of non-disturbance notice
Civil Aviation Act 2023
Put up a notice at the airport if you get an improvement or non-disturbance notice
311: Display of notice at aviation place by person issued with improvement notice or non-disturbance notice
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