Health Amendment Act 1973
Health Amendment Act 1973
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Health Amendment Act 1973
Public Act |
1973 No 111 |
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Date of assent |
23 November 1973 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the Health Act 1956
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short Title
This Act may be cited as the Health Amendment Act 1973, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Health Act 1956 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Powers of Director-General of Health
Section 5 of the principal Act (as amended by section 2(1) of the Health Amendment Act 1970) is hereby further amended by inserting, after subsection (5), the following subsection:
“(5a)
On the occurrence of a vacancy in the office of the Deputy Director-General of Health, whether by reason of death, resignation, or otherwise, or in the absence from duty of the Deputy Director-General of Health, and so long as the vacancy or absence continues, subsections (4) and (5) of this section shall apply as if references to the Deputy Director-General of Health (Public Health) were substituted for the references therein to the Deputy Director-General of Health.”
3 Abolition of obligation to provide mortuaries
(1)
Section 25 of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing paragraph (g) of subsection (1).
(2)
Section 84 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection (1) the words “, and when so required by the Board of Health shall,”
.
4 Offensive trades
(1)
The principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection (2) of section 54, and also from subsection (2) of section 55, the expression “5 miles”
, and substituting in each case the expression “8 kilometres”
.
(2)
Section 54 of the principal Act (as amended by section 2 of the Health Amendment Act 1959) is hereby further amended by revoking the proviso to subsection (5).
(3)
The Health Amendment Act 1959 is hereby consequentially repealed.
(4)
Subsections (2) and (3) of this section shall come into force on the 1st day of April 1974.
5 Special powers of Medical Officer of Health
(1)
Section 70 of the principal Act (as amended by section 3 of the Health Amendment Act 1964) is hereby further amended by omitting from subsection (1) the words “major disaster”
, and substituting the words “civil defence emergency or a state of regional civil defence emergency”
.
(2)
Section 71 of the principal Act (as amended by section 4 of the Health Amendment Act 1964 and section 19(3) of the Civil Defence Amendment Act 1968) is hereby further amended by inserting in subsection (1), after the word “emergency”
, the words “or a state of regional civil defence emergency”
.
6 Ships liable to quarantine
Section 99 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from paragraph (e) of subsection (1) the word “yards”
, and substituting the word “metres”
.
7 Regulations as to homes for old people
(1)
Section 120a of the principal Act (as inserted by section 2 of the Health Amendment Act 1958 and amended by section 10(1)(a) of the Health Amendment Act 1964) is hereby further amended by repealing paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (2), and substituting the following paragraphs:
“(a)
Prescribe, either by reference to other enactments or otherwise, minimum standards of accommodation (including accommodation for persons who have attained the age of 65 years and who are admitted to the home for care during the day but who are not resident in the home) and staffing to be provided in all such homes or in any class or classes of such homes:
“(b)
Provide for the inspection of all such homes and of premises reasonably believed to be such homes:”.
(2)
The said section 120a is hereby further amended by omitting from subsection (3) the figure “6”
, and substituting the figure “5”
.
(3)
The said section 120a is hereby further amended by adding the following subsections:
“(4)
Subsections (1) and (2) of this section shall apply in respect of day care centres as if for the references therein to homes there were substituted references to day care centres and as if the words in brackets in paragraph (a) of the said subsection (2) were omitted.
“(5)
In subsection (4) of this section the term ‘day care centre’ means any premises which are or purport to be used regularly, although not necessarily continuously, for the accommodation, for care, occupation, recreation, or entertainment, during the day, of 5 or more persons who have attained the age of 65 years, who are not related by blood or marriage to the occupier of the premises, and by whom or on whose behalf payment is made in respect of such accommodation or in respect of one or more meals provided in the course of such accommodation, whether or not the premises are used at the same time for the accommodation of other persons or for other purposes; but does not include—
“(a)
A home; or
“(b)
Any premises expressly excepted from the definition of ‘home’ in subsection (3) of this section; or
“(c)
Any premises in which such accommodation may be provided by virtue of powers conferred by, or of a licence issued by a local authority under, any other enactment.”
(4)
Section 10 of the Health Amendment Act 1964 is hereby consequentially amended by repealing paragraphs (a) and (c) of subsection (1).
This Act is administered in the Department of Health.
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