New Zealand Legislation: Acts

14 Provisions relating to notices under sections 11 and 12

• (1) An authority may at any time, by notice in the Gazette, amend, revoke, or replace a notice under section 11 or section 12.

  (2) Before an authority publishes a notice under section 11 or section 12 or under this section, the authority must have consulted about its proposal for the contents of the notice—

  • (a) with persons who the authority considers are able to represent the views of health practitioners, or of classes of health practitioner, registered with the authority; and

  • (b) with organisations—

    • (i) that the authority considers will be affected by the proposal; or

    • (ii) whose members the authority considers will be affected by the proposal.

  (3) Each authority must ensure that an up-to-date version of each notice that the authority has published under section 11 or section 12 is—

  • (a) available on the Internet; and

  • (b) available at the office of the authority during business hours, so that members of the public may—

    • (i) inspect the notice free of charge; or

    • (ii) obtain a photocopy of the notice for a reasonable fee.

  (4) Each notice published under section 11 or section 12 is a regulation for the purposes of the Regulations (Disallowance) Act 1989 but is not a regulation for the purposes of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989.

  (5) Before the commencement of section 114(1), this section and sections 11 to 13 apply to each body that is referred to in column 1 of Schedule 2 as if it were already appointed as an authority under this Act in respect of the profession specified opposite to it in column 2 of that schedule.