Accident Rehabilitation and Compensation Insurance Corporation v Tarr - [1996] 3 NZLR 715

Accident compensation — Earnings-related compensation — Calculation of "weekly earnings" — Individual self-employed for 41 weeks in the income year last ended prior to the date of incapacity and employed for the other 11 weeks — Whether weekly earnings calculated by dividing self-employed earnings in that year by 41 weeks or 52 weeks — Accident Rehabilitation and Compensation Insurance Act 1992, s 41(2).

Statutes — Interpretation — Meaning of "weekly earnings" — Meaning of "income year" — Whether non-literal interpretation appropriate.