Brown v Accident Compensation Corporation (Claim for Weekly Compensation) [2023] NZACC 56 [pdf, 195 KB]
...will not be accepted as being valid for weekly compensation purposes. [40] In Message,4 Judge Walker stated: [133] Judge Maclean, in Irwin, looked at the relationship between Clause 31 and s 15 and upheld the position that the Corporation is permitted to calculate a claimant’s earnings as a shareholder-employee pursuant to s 15(3) of the Act regardless of the IRD returns. [41] In Irwin,5 Judge MacLean stated: [34] … I have concluded that this is not a clause 31 type of situa...