New Zealand Legislation: Acts

19 Criteria for approval of amendments

• (1) The Minister must not approve amendments of service standards for providing health or disability services of any kind unless the Minister—

  • (a) has consulted (as required by section 20) on whether the amendments should be made to the standards; and

  • (b) has considered the outcome of the consultation; and

  • (c) is satisfied that requiring providers of services of that kind to provide them in compliance with the standards as amended by the amendments approved would be in the public interest, having regard to—

    • (i) the extent to which compliance would be likely to ensure the safe provision of services of that kind to the public; and

    • (ii) the likely costs to providers of compliance.

  (2) Subsection (1) does not prevent the approval of amendments that are a modified version of proposed amendments consulted on under paragraph (a) of that subsection.

  (3) Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) do not apply to amendments made to service standards solely to correct an error or omission.