New Zealand Legislation: Acts

55 Minister must appoint person responsible for activity

• (1) When the Minister declares a quality assurance activity to be protected under section 54, the Minister must also, by written notice and in accordance with the nomination in the application for the declaration, appoint the person who is to be responsible for the activity.

  (2) The Minister may, by written notice, on the nomination of the sponsor of a protected quality assurance activity, appoint a person to fill a vacancy in the position of person responsible for the activity.

  (3) A person may be appointed under this section only if—

  • (a) the person is a natural person who, in the opinion of the Minister, is sufficiently independent of the health practitioners whose services are to be assessed or evaluated through the quality assurance activity; and

  • (b) the person has not been convicted by any court in New Zealand or elsewhere of any offence punishable by imprisonment for a term of 3 months or longer; and

  • (c) the person has not been adjudged bankrupt under the Insolvency Act 2006.

  Section 55(3)(c): amended, on 3 December 2007, by section 445 of the Insolvency Act 2006 (2006 No 55).