New Zealand Legislation: Acts

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

• (1) While an epidemic notice is in force, the Governor-General may, by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the Minister of Health, modify any requirement or restriction imposed by any enactment administered by the Ministry of Health.

  (2) The Minister of Health must not recommend the making of an order except on a written recommendation of the Director-General of Health, stating that, in the Director-General’s opinion, the modifications it makes are or are likely to be necessary to enable the effective management of the quarantinable disease stated in the epidemic notice or its effects (or both).

  (3) A modification of a requirement or restriction—

  • (a) may be absolute or subject to conditions; and

  • (b) may be made—

    • (i) by stating alternative means of complying with the requirement or restriction; or

    • (ii) by substituting a discretionary power for the requirement or restriction.

  (4) Subsection (3) does not limit subsection (1).