Tēnā koe

 

Thank you for your email dated 19^th of September 2020 addressed to the
Hon Carmel Sepuloni, Minister for ACC.  Thank you for writing.

 

Your correspondence has been transferred to the Office of Hon Willie
Jackson, Associate Minister for ACC whose delegation includes ACC
individual client issues.  This is acknowledgement in receipt of your
official request for information outlined below and pursuant to section 12
of the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act). 

 

The information to which your request relates to is not held by the Office
of the Associate Minister for ACC but is believed to be held by ACC.  In
these circumstances, we are required by section 14 (a) (b) (1) of the Act
to transfer your request, in this instance to ACC. 

 

You will hear further from ACC concerning your request.

 

Ngā mihi

 

 

Nāku noa, nā

 

Denise Traill

Private Secretary, ACC | Office of Hon Willie Jackson
Minister of Employment | Associate Minister for Māori Development |
Associate Minister for ACC

 

Private Bag 18041, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----

From: M.R.M. [[1]mailto:[FOI #13843 email]]

Sent: Saturday, 19 September 2020 8:57 AM

To: C Sepuloni (MIN) <[2][email address]>

Subject: Official Information request - ACC review and appeal services

 

Dear Carmel Sepuloni,

 

As the Minister for ACC, I am requesting that you provide me with copies
of the following information under the Official Information Act:-

 

1.  The contract / agreement, and/or any other document/s, that provides
for government funding of the review and appeal services as legally
required to be rendered under Part 5 of the Accident Compensation Act
2001, and in this instance by Fairway Resolution Limited.

 

***  Note that this is not an information request that your office can
escape complying with by claiming in response that Fairway Resolution
Limited must provide me with the requested information, and that you have
therefore transferred it to them. Notwithstanding that it is public
knowledge that Fairway Resolution Limited is no longer legally required to
comply with the Official Information Act, the contract / agreement, and/or
any other document/s, has two parties to it and I am specifically
directing this request to your office because not only would the contract
/ agreement, and/or any other document/s have been instigated and produced
by your office, but, your office - as the primary partner - is subject to
the provisions of the Official Information Act and therefore legally
required to provide me with the requested information.

 

2.  An example of the template document that the ACC - again, not Fairway
Resolution Limited - is legally required (under Section 136 of the
Accident Compensation Act 2001) to provide to claimants who have submitted
a review application, and, which must a) acknowledge when the review
application was received by the ACC, and b) contain an explanation of the
effect of Sections 146 and 147 of the Accident Compensation Act 2001.

 

3.   Despite Fairway Resolution Limited now purportedly being a "private
company", and given the fact that this change of ownership was done to try
and strengthen the appearance of Fairway Resolution Limited and its
reviewers being "independent" of the ACC, Section 137 of the Accident
Compensation Act 2001 still requires the "Corporation to engage and
allocate reviewers."

 

Since the word "engage" has a number of definitions and with some of them
running counter to the purported "independence" of Fairway Resolution
Limited from the ACC, the contract / agreement, and/or any other
document/s, that provides for the legal requirement that "the Corporation
must engage as many persons as it considers necessary to be reviewers
under this Part", and that "the Corporation must arrange for the
allocation of a reviewer to the review."

 

If you are not clear on any aspect of my information request please ask me
to clarify same.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

M.R.M.

 

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Kia ora M.R.M.,

Thank you for your email which was transferred to us from the Minister for
ACC on 21 September 2020. 
 

Due to the nature of your request, ACC’s OIA Services team is responding
to it under the Official Information Act 1982 and we hope to respond your
request as soon as possible. 
If we are unable to respond to your request within 20 working days, we
will notify you of an extension. If you have any questions, we are happy
to work with you to resolve them. 
 

We can be contacted via email at [1][email address].

Ngâ mihi

             
 
  Sasha Wood, Manager OIA Services, ACC  
  ACC cares about the environment – please don’t print this  
  email    
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Kia ora M.R.M.

Please find attached our extension to your official information request
dated 21 September 2020. If you have any questions about the extension you
can contact us at this [1]address, for all other matters please use our
contact form at: [2]https://www.acc.co.nz/contact/ alternatively give us a
call on 0800 101 996.

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Ngâ mihi

   
             
 
    Sasha Wood, Manager OIA Services, ACC  
  ACC cares about the environment – please don’t print this  
  email    
    unless it is really necessary. Thank you.    

 

 

 

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Kia ora M.R.M.

Please find attached our response to your official information request
dated 21 September 2020. If you have any questions about the response you
can contact us at this [1]address, for all other matters please use our
contact form at: [2]https://www.acc.co.nz/contact/ alternatively give us
a call on 0800 101 996.

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Ngâ mihi

   
             
 
    Sasha Wood, Manager OIA Services, ACC  
  ACC cares about the environment – please don’t print this  
  email    
    unless it is really necessary. Thank you.    

 

 

 

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Ngâ mihi

   
             
 
    Sasha Wood, Manager OIA Services, ACC  
  ACC cares about the environment – please don’t print this  
  email    
    unless it is really necessary. Thank you.    

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Kia ora 
 
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Ngâ mihi

   
             
 
    Sasha Wood, Manager OIA Services, ACC  
  ACC cares about the environment – please don’t print this  
  email    
    unless it is really necessary. Thank you.    

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