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(1) The Director-General shall from time to time designate as medical officers of health such persons as, in the opinion of the Director-General, are required.
(2) Each such person designated as a medical officer of health shall be a medical practitioner suitably qualified and experienced in public health medicine.
(3) The Director-General shall, at the time of designation of a medical officer of health, determine the health district or health districts within which the powers and duties of that medical officer of health may be exercised or performed.
(4) The Director-General shall from time to time designate as health protection officers such persons as, in the opinion of the Director-General, are required.
(5) Notwithstanding any other enactment, the Director-General may from time to time designate, as officers who have functions, duties, or powers under any enactment administered by the Ministry that is specified in the designation, such persons as, in the opinion of the Director-General, are required.
(6) Any designation by the Director-General under this section of any person as a medical officer of health, health protection officer, or other officer may be made on such terms and conditions as the Director-General considers appropriate; and that person shall exercise the functions, duties, and powers of that office in accordance with any direction of the Director-General.
(7) Where by virtue of any enactment, a reasonable belief in any particular state of affairs is a prerequisite for the exercise of any power by a medical officer of health, health protection officer, or other officer designated by the Director-General, it shall be sufficient if that officer exercises that power at the direction of the Director-General (or any other person designated by the Director-General for the purposes of this subsection) so long as, at the time of giving the direction, the Director-General or other person held such a belief in that state of affairs.
Section 7A was inserted, as from 1 July 1993, by section 4 Health Amendment Act 1993 (1993 No 24).
Subsection (2) was substituted, as from 1 July 1996, by section 143(1) Medical Practitioners Act 1995 (1995 No 95). See clause 2 Medical Practitioners Act Commencement Order 1996 (SR 1996/162).
