Accident Compensation Act 2001

Entitlements and related matters - Social rehabilitation

81: Corporation's liability to provide key aspects of social rehabilitation

You could also call this:

“ACC's responsibility to provide important help for your recovery after an injury”

You need to know about key aspects of social rehabilitation. These are important things that can help you if you’ve been injured. The key aspects include aids and appliances, attendant care, child care, education support, home help, modifications to your home, training for independence, and transport for independence.

The Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) might provide these things for you if you need them. But before they do, a few things need to happen. First, someone needs to check if you really need the help. Then, ACC has to agree that the help is directly related to your injury and will help you get better or manage better. They also need to make sure it’s the right kind of help and good quality.

If you have a rehabilitation plan, the help needs to be part of that plan. ACC won’t start providing the help before a certain date, which is decided by special rules.

Remember, there are laws that control how all of this works. These laws make sure that ACC provides the right help to the right people at the right time.

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Part 4 Entitlements and related matters
Social rehabilitation

81Corporation's liability to provide key aspects of social rehabilitation

  1. In this section, key aspect of social rehabilitation means any of the following:

  2. aids and appliances:
    1. attendant care:
      1. child care:
        1. education support:
          1. home help:
            1. modifications to the home:
              1. training for independence:
                1. transport for independence.
                  1. Terms in subsection (1)(a), (b), and (d) to (h) have the same meaning as in clause 12 of Schedule 1.

                  2. The Corporation is liable to provide a key aspect of social rehabilitation to a claimant—

                  3. if the conditions in subsection (4) are met; but
                    1. not earlier than a date determined in accordance with section 83.
                      1. The conditions are—

                      2. a claimant is assessed or reassessed under section 84 as needing the key aspect; and
                        1. the provision of the key aspect is in accordance with the Corporation's assessment of it under whichever of clauses 13 to 22 of Schedule 1 are relevant; and
                          1. the Corporation considers that the key aspect—
                            1. is required as a direct consequence of the personal injury for which the claimant has cover; and
                              1. is for the purpose set out in section 79; and
                                1. is necessary and appropriate, and of the quality required, for that purpose; and
                                  1. is of a type normally provided by a rehabilitation provider; and
                                  2. the provision of the key aspect has been agreed in the claimant's individual rehabilitation plan, if a plan has been agreed.
                                    1. This clause is subject to any regulations made under section 324.

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