New Zealand Legislation: Acts

24 Standards to be reviewed regularly

• (1) The Minister must from time to time consult (as required by section 20) on whether the service standards for providing health care services of any kind should—

  • (a) continue in force unamended; or

  • (b) to encourage the providers of health care services of that kind to improve the quality of those services,—

    • (i) be amended; or

    • (ii) be replaced by 1 or more new sets of service standards.

  (2) The Minister must consult no later than 4 years after the most recent of the following days:

  • (a) the day the approval of the standards came into force:

  • (b) the day the approval of the most recent amendment of the standards came into force:

  • (c) the day the most recent consultation on the standards under this section was begun.