Consultation

110. Section 331 of the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation (IPRC) Act 2001 requires that ACC undertakes public consultation on proposed levy rates for each of its levied Accounts prior to recommending rates to the Minister.

111. The ACC Board carried out public consultation with levypayers from mid-October to mid-November 2009. Consultation and analysis of submissions has been completed. ACC received 101 submissions on the Composite Work levy, 14 submissions on the Composite Earners' Account levy and 2,593 submissions including three petitions signed by a total of almost 500 people on the Motor Vehicle Account.

112. The ACC Board provided its recommendations to me on 26 November 2009. These recommendations were advertised and gazetted on 1 December 2009.

113. ACC, the Treasury, Inland Revenue Department, NZ Transport Agency, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the New Zealand Customs Service, Te Puni Kokiri and the Ministries of Social Development, Transport, Womens' Affairs and Pacific Island Affairs were informed of this paper.