Epidemic Preparedness Act 2006 No 85 (as at 07 July 2010), Public Act

Reprint as at 7 July 2010

Epidemic Preparedness Act 2006

Public Act2006 No 85
Date of assent18 December 2006
Commencementsee section 2

Note

Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this reprint.

A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this reprint, together with other explanatory material about this reprint.

This Act is administered by the Ministry of Health.


Contents

1 Title

2 Commencement

3 Purpose

4 Interpretation

Epidemic notices and epidemic management notices

5 Prime Minister may enable use of special powers

6 Parliament must meet if epidemic notice given

7 Renewal and modification of epidemic notices

8 Activating other measures while epidemic notice in force

9 Review of epidemic notices

10 Review of epidemic management notices

Prospective modification of statutory requirements and restrictions

11 Prospective modification of statutory requirements and restrictions to facilitate management of serious outbreaks of disease

12 Prospective modification of statutory requirements and restrictions to enable compliance during epidemic

13 Application of prospective modifications

Immediate modification of statutory requirements and restrictions

14 Immediate modification of statutory requirements and restrictions to facilitate management of quarantinable disease

15 Immediate modification of statutory requirements and restrictions to enable compliance during epidemic

Parliamentary scrutiny of immediate modifications

16 Immediate modification orders to be presented to House of Representatives promptly

17 Disallowance of immediate modification orders

18 When immediate modification orders disallowed

19 Disallowance has effect of revocation

20 Lapse of notice of motion to disallow immediate modification order [Repealed]

21 Notice of resolution to disallow immediate modification order

22 Application of Regulations (Disallowance) Act 1989

Other matters

23 Areas within which modification orders operate

24 Judges may modify rules of court during epidemic

25 Certain common law doctrines not affected

26 Effect of modification orders on requirements to tell people of their rights

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