New Zealand Legislation: Acts

29 Expiry of certification

• (1) The day on which a notice under section 26 expires may be any day (no later than 5 years after it takes effect) that the Director-General in his or her absolute discretion decides.

  (2) The Director-General must not decide a day more than 3 years after the notice takes effect unless—

  • (a) the person concerned is already certified to provide health care services of the kind concerned; and

  • (b) the Director-General is satisfied that the person has been improving, and is likely to continue to improve, the quality of the health care services of that kind provided by the person.

  (3) Unless earlier cancelled, a person's certification to provide health care services of any kind expires on the day on which the notice certifying the person to provide health care services of that kind expires.

  (4) In order to enable a person already certified to provide health care services of any kind to continue to provide those services,—

  • (a) the Director-General may again certify the person to provide health care services of that kind before the existing certification expires; and

  • (b) in relation to the new certification, the Minister may under section 23 exempt the person (or exempt the person again) from any stated element of the service standards concerned.