18Failure of organisation to pay premiums

18 Failure of organisation to pay premiums

18 Failure of organisation to pay premiums

(1) Where any premium required by a notice served on a sporting organisation under section 17 (1) to be paid to the Authority on or before the due day for payment of the premium has not been paid to the Authority on or before 30 June next following that due day, then, while it is unpaid, paragraph (d) of the definition of worker in section 4 (1) of the Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998, as in force for the time being, does not apply and shall be deemed not to have applied to or in respect of any person who, but for that paragraph, would be a worker within the meaning of that Act while he or she is, or was at any time during the year commencing with 1 July immediately preceding that 30 June and ending with that 30 June, participating in any authorised activity of the organisation or doing anything that, although not such an authorised activity, is or was done in connection with, or related to, such an authorised activity, and the organisation shall be deemed to be, or to have been, his or her employer at that time, as the case may require.

(2) Where any premium required by a notice served on a sporting organisation under section 17 (1) to be paid to the Authority on or before the due day for payment of the premium is unpaid, a person who suffers an injury while participating in an authorised activity of the organisation during the period specified in the notice as the period with respect to which the premium is payable is not, for the purposes of section 19 (1) or (2) or 27 (1), a registered participant of the organisation until the premium is paid but, if the premium is paid before the end of that period, whether before, on or after that due day, any person who would, if this subsection had not been enacted, have been a registered participant of the organisation at a time occurring during that period but before payment of the amount shall, for the purposes of sections 19 (1) and (2) and 27 (1), be treated as if he or she had been a registered participant of the organisation at that time.

s 18: Subst 1981 No 116, Sch 2 (3). Am 1987 No 79, Sch 1; 1998 No 85, Sch 2.10 [2].