Part 1 contains general provisions (for example, on definitions).
Assistance
Part 2 contains provisions on assistance, as follows:
Main assistance
jobseeker support:
sole parent support:
supported living payment—
on the ground of restricted work capacity or total blindness; or
on the ground of caring for another person:
orphan’s benefit:
unsupported child’s benefit:
youth payment:
young parent payment:
emergency benefit:
Supplementary assistance
accommodation supplement:
winter energy payment:
childcare assistance:
child disability allowance:
disability allowance:
funeral grants:
Hardship assistance
temporary additional support:
Special assistance
special assistance for visitors affected by overseas epidemics:
approved special assistance programmes (see the guide in section 15).
Obligations
Part 3 contains provisions on obligations (for example, MSD’s obligations, and each beneficiary’s obligations—see the guide in section 104).
Factors affecting benefits
Part 4 contains provisions on factors affecting benefits (for example, insurance, entitlement to overseas pensions, failure to assist child support, shared care of a dependent child, hospitalisation, being in custody in prison or on remand, and absence from New Zealand—see the guide in section 183).
Enforcement, sanctions, and offences
Part 5 contains provisions on enforcement, sanctions, and offences (for example, sanctions for failing to meet obligations—see the guide in section 231).
Administration
Part 6 contains provisions on administration (for example, on applications for and granting of benefits, reviews of entitlement, when benefits commence and end or expire, how benefits are paid, tax on benefits, debts and deductions, notices and communications, and reciprocity agreements with other countries—see the guide in section 296).
Reviews and appeals
Part 7 contains provisions on reviews and appeals (reviews by benefits review committees and appeals to the appeal authority, to the courts, or to the medical board—see the guide in section 390).
Other provisions
Part 8 contains other provisions (for example, on powers to make regulations or orders, repeals and revocations, and consequential amendments—see the guide in section 416).
Definitions appear in dictionary
Schedule 2 lists all terms defined for purposes of this Act, and sets out, or indicates where to find, the definitions.
Act is generally former 1964 and 1990 Acts in rewritten form
The provisions of this Act, as section 9 indicates, are generally—
the provisions of specified former 1964 and 1990 enactments in rewritten form; and
intended to have the same effect as the corresponding provisions of those former enactments.
Subsection (10) is overridden by section 9(6) (which relates to identified changes in legislation that are specified in Schedule 11, and to amendments to this Act that are made after the beginning of 26 November 2018).