The Parliamentary Counsel Office has made editorial and format changes to this version using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

Note 4 at the end of this version provides a list of the amendments included in it.

This order is administered by the Ministry of Health.

This order is made under section 117 of the Health Act 1956 on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council.

1	Title
2	Commencement
3	Revocation of Health (Immunisation) Regulations 1995
4	Revocation of this order
	Explanatory note
	Gazette Information
	Notes

Order

1 Title

This order is the Health (Immunisation) Regulations Revocation Order 2025.

2 Commencement

This order comes into force on 8 January 2026.

3 Revocation of Health (Immunisation) Regulations 1995

The Health (Immunisation) Regulations 1995 (SR 1995/304) are revoked.

4 Revocation of this order

This order is revoked on 8 July 2026.

Rachel Hayward,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the order but is intended to indicate its general effect.

This order, which comes into force on 8 January 2026, revokes the Health (Immunisation) Regulations 1995.

The Health (Immunisation) Regulations 1995 require primary schools and early childhood education and care centres (ECE centres) to maintain an immunisation register that contains information about the immunisation statuses of their enrolled children. To enable the creation of these immunisation registers, the regulations also require primary schools and ECE centres to request immunisation certificates in respect of their enrolled children, and for caretakers of their enrolled children to provide such certificates upon request.

From 8 January 2026, information about the immunisation status of children enrolled at primary schools and ECE centres will only be managed by the Aotearoa Immunisation Register through information sharing agreements between the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education, rather than by the Register as well as primary schools and ECE centres.

This order is revoked on 8 July 2026.

Regulatory impact statement

The Ministry of Health produced a regulatory impact statement on 17 March 2025 to help inform the decisions taken by the Government relating to this instrument.

A copy of this regulatory impact statement can be found at—

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2019.

Date of notification in Gazette: 11 December 2025.

Notes

1 General

This is a consolidation of the Health (Immunisation) Regulations Revocation Order 2025 that incorporates the amendments made to the legislation so that it shows the law as at its stated date.

2 Legal status

A consolidation is taken to correctly state, as at its stated date, the law enacted or made by the legislation consolidated and by the amendments. This presumption applies unless the contrary is shown.

Section 78 of the Legislation Act 2019 provides that this consolidation, published as an electronic version, is an official version. A printed version of legislation that is produced directly from this official electronic version is also an official version.

3 Editorial and format changes

The Parliamentary Counsel Office makes editorial and format changes to consolidations using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. See also PCO editorial conventions for consolidations.

4 Amendments incorporated in this consolidation

Health (Immunisation) Regulations Revocation Order 2025 (SL 2025/304): clause 4

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