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Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation (Social Assistance) Amendment Act 2008 Public Act Date of assent Commencement 2008 No 26 8 April 2008 see section 2 Contents Title Commencement Principal Act amended Purpose of this Act Disclosure of information by Corporation for beneﬁt purposes Page 1 1 2 2 2 The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as follows: 1 2 Title This Act is the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Com­ pensation (Social Assistance) Amendment Act 2008.
Commencement This Act comes into force on the day after the date on which it receives the Royal assent.

1 s 3 3 4 Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation (Social Assistance) Amendment Act 2008 2008 No 26 Principal Act amended This Act amends the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act 2001.
Purpose of this Act The purpose of this Act is to amend the principal Act so that the purposes for which it facilitates the disclosure of infor­ mation by the Corporation to the department for the time be­ ing responsible for the administration of the Social Security Act 1964 include enabling the recovery of any debt due to the Crown in respect of any beneﬁt.
5 (1) (2) Disclosure of information by Corporation for beneﬁt purposes The heading to section 281 is amended by inserting “and beneﬁt debt recovery” after “beneﬁt”.
Section 281 is amended by repealing subsection (2) and sub­ stituting the following subsection: “(2) The purpose of this section is to facilitate the disclosure of information by the Corporation to the department for the time being responsible for the administration of the Social Security Act 1964 for all or any of the following purposes: “(a) to verify the entitlement or eligibility of any person to or for any beneﬁt: to verify the amount of any beneﬁt to which a person is or was entitled or for which a person is or was eligible: to enable the recovery of any debt due to the Crown in respect of any beneﬁt.” “(b) “(c) 2 2008 No 26 Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation (Social Assistance) Amendment Act 2008 19 March 2008 3 April 2008 8 April 2008 Legislative history Divided from Social Assistance (Debt Prevention and Minimisation) Amendment Bill (Bill 134–2) by committee of the whole House Third reading Royal assent This Act is administered by the Department of Labour.
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