23 Aug 2013
Brown v Accident Compensation Corporation
- Citation
- [2013] NZACC 264
- Court
- District Court
The bus licence P endorsement was a substantive part of the appellant's comprehensive vocational rehabilitation as recorded in the IRP and was a liability of ACC; therefore under s110(3) ACC could not lawfully require participation in vocational independence assessment until that rehabilitation was completed. An IRP provision stating the course was "not dependent" on the vocational independence process was ineffective to displace the statutory requirement. The vocational independence decision was invalid and must be set aside.