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Accident Compensation Act 2001

Dispute resolution - Appeals

151: Manner of bringing appeal

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“How to ask for a decision to be looked at again”

If you want to appeal a decision, you need to send a notice of appeal to a specific office or file it there. This notice must be on the correct form that the law says you should use.

You have to make sure the office gets your notice within 28 days after you receive the decision you’re appealing. If your case was automatically decided because it took too long, you have 28 days from the date mentioned in section 146. If you need more time, you can ask the District Court to give you extra time to send your notice.

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Part 5 Dispute resolution
Appeals

151Manner of bringing appeal

  1. An appellant brings an appeal by sending a notice of appeal to, or filing a notice of appeal in, a specified registry.

  2. The notice must be in the prescribed form.

  3. The notice must be received by the specified registry—

  4. within 28 days after the date on which the reviewer gives a copy of the review decision to the appellant; or
    1. in the case of a deemed review decision under section 146, within 28 days of the date specified in section 146(2); or
      1. within any longer time allowed by the District Court.

        Notes
        • Section 151(3)(c): amended, on , by section 261 of the District Court Act 2016 (2016 No 49).
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