Direction to the Accident Rehabilitation and Compensation Insurance Corporation Relating to the Acceptance of Claims for Occupational Diseases To the Accident Rehabilitation and Compensation Insurance Corporation Pursuant to section 159 of the Accident Rehabilitation and Compensation Insurance Act 1992 I hereby direct the Corporation, until this direction is revoked, to: (a) ensure that the operational guidelines for the consideration of claims for work related diseases (under section 7 of the Accident Rehabilitation and Compensation Insurance Act 1992) are amended to: (i) incorporate the schedule from ILO Convention 42 concerning Workmen's Compensation for Occupational Diseases; and (ii) incorporate a presumption that, unless there is specific evidence to the contrary, claims to which the schedule relates should be processed as occupational in origin; and (b) ensure that all claims for cover in respect of occupational diseases are processed in accordance with those operational guidelines. Dated at Wellington this 20th day of July 1998. MURRAY McCULLY, Minister for ARCI.