Part 1Administration
Health districts
22Certain officers to have functions of medical officers of health
Every person who holds the office of Director-General of Health shall, if that person is a medical practitioner suitably experienced and qualified in public health medicine, have all the functions of a medical officer of health, and may exercise those functions in any part of New Zealand.
Every person who holds the office of Director-General of Health and is not a medical practitioner suitably experienced and qualified in public health medicine shall designate a medical practitioner or medical practitioners who is or are employed in the Ministry and who is or are suitably experienced and qualified in public health medicine to exercise the functions of a medical officer of health in any part of New Zealand.
A person who holds office as Director of Public Health has the functions of a medical officer of health and may exercise them in any part of New Zealand if they are a medical practitioner specialising in public health.
Notes
- Section 22: replaced, on , by section 143(1) of the Medical Practitioners Act 1995 (1995 No 95).
- Section 22(3): inserted, on , by section 104 of the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022 (2022 No 30).