New Zealand Legislation: Acts

31 Replacement of board by commissioner

• (1) Where the Minister is seriously dissatisfied with the performance of a board of a DHB, the Minister may, by written notice to the board and the commissioner, dismiss all members of the board and replace the board with a commissioner.

  (1A) The Minister may also replace the board with a commissioner, by written notice to the board and the commissioner, if all the members of the board of a DHB are removed from office under this Act and the Crown Entities Act 2004.

  (2) Where the Minister replaces a board with a commissioner, the commissioner has all the functions, duties, powers, and protections of the board and of a member of the board except that—

  • (a) clauses 14 to 35 of Schedule 3 do not apply to a commissioner; and

  • (b) where the commissioner has an interest of the kind described in section 6(2), the commissioner must make the required disclosure to the Minister, and the Minister, under clause 37 of that schedule, must notify any waiver or modification of clause 36(2) of that schedule to the commissioner.

  (3) A commissioner may appoint, on any terms and conditions that may be agreed, up to 3 deputy commissioners, each of whom must be a person who would be eligible to be appointed by the Minister to a board of a DHB.

  (4) The Minister may at any time, by written notice, dismiss a commissioner from office, and a commissioner may at any time, by written notice, dismiss a deputy commissioner from office with the agreement of the Minister.

  (5) All the provisions of this Act and the Crown Entities Act 2004 that apply to appointed members of a board apply, with any necessary modifications, to a commissioner and a deputy commissioner.

  (6) A commissioner and any deputy commissioner hold office only until the persons elected at the next election of members of boards take office as board members.

  Section 31(1A): inserted, on 25 January 2005, by section 200 of the Crown Entities Act 2004 (2004 No 115).

  Section 31(5): amended, on 25 January 2005, by section 200 of the Crown Entities Act 2004 (2004 No 115).