3 Dec 2003
Carpenter v Accident Compensation Corporation
- Citation
- [2003] NZACC 315
- Court
- District Court
The term 'treatment' in the 1998 Act was ambiguous so the contemporaneous 1999 Regulations could be used to interpret it; applying the 1999 Regulations (including Reg 15), the appellant did not satisfy the qualifying criteria for non-emergency transport because the gym and pool programmes were treated as rehabilitation rather than treatment under those regulations, and therefore ACC was not legally obliged to pay the claimed travel costs for the period in dispute; appeal dismissed.