18 Apr 1996
Stringer v Accident Rehabilitation and Compensation Insurance Corporation
- Citation
- [1996] NZACC 24
- Court
- District Court
The Act permits the date of assessment to be read as the date at which the claimant's degree of disability is assessed (not strictly the physical date the assessment occurred), and because the 1992 Act limits backdating before 1 July 1992, the appellant's degree of disability must be reassessed as at 1 July 1992 (or at a date between 1 July 1992 and 12 October 1994) and, if entitled, the independence allowance must be backdated to that date.