Home Building Act 1989
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101A Claim form
101A Claim form
(1) The Authority may approve a form for giving notice of a claim under a contract of insurance.
(2) A claim under a contract of insurance may be made in the approved form but is not required to be made in that form.
(3) The regulations may make provision for or with respect to—
(a) clauses or matter that must be included in a claim form or a class of claim forms, or
(b) clauses or matter that must not be included in a claim form or a class of claim forms.
(4) If the regulations require a claim form or class of claim forms to contain a clause in prescribed terms, a claim form of the kind to which the requirement relates is taken to include the clause in the terms prescribed.
(5) An insurer must accept for consideration any claim submitted in the approved form.
(6) Any regulations made under this section do not apply to a claim form in force at the time that the regulations commence.
s 101A: Ins 2001 No 51, Sch 6 [19]. Am 2017 No 28, Sch 1 [23].