Accident Compensation Act 2001

23 Cover for personal injury suffered by persons not ordinarily resident in New Zealand: exclusions while travelling to, around, and from New Zealand
  • (1) A person not ordinarily resident in New Zealand does not have cover for a personal injury if he or she suffers it while he or she—

    • (a) is on board a ship or aircraft or other means of conveyance described in subsection (2); or

    • (b) is embarking or disembarking from any such ship or aircraft or conveyance.

    (2) Subsection (1)(a) relates to the ship, aircraft, or conveyance on which the person—

    • (a) comes to New Zealand; or

    • (b) leaves New Zealand; or

    • (c) comes to New Zealand, is carried and accommodated in the course of visiting New Zealand, and leaves New Zealand.

    (3) For the purposes of subsection (1)(b),—

    • (a) embarking begins as soon as a person is on a gangway, air bridge, or other thing attached to or laid against a ship, aircraft, or other conveyance and available for use in embarking:

    • (b) disembarking finishes as soon as a person has left any gangway, air bridge, or other thing attached to or laid against a ship, aircraft, or other conveyance and available for use in disembarking.

    Compare: 1998 No 114 s 42