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Health Act 1956

National Cervical Screening Programme - Miscellaneous

112ZL: Access to standards incorporated by reference

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"Free access to health standards and rules during work hours"

The Director-General must make certain standards available for you to look at for free during working hours. You can find these standards at the Ministry of Health's head office and other places the Director-General chooses. The Director-General must also sell copies of these standards at a reasonable price. They can also make these standards available in other ways, such as on a website. The Director-General must tell you in the Gazette that these standards are part of the regulations and where you can find them. They must also say how you can buy copies of the standards and where to get them. If the Director-General does not do these things, it does not mean the regulations are invalid. The standards are the ones incorporated by reference in regulations made under section 112ZF(1)(g), and any changes or replacements to those standards.

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Part 4ANational Cervical Screening Programme
Miscellaneous

112ZLAccess to standards incorporated by reference

  1. The Director-General—

  2. must make the standards referred to in subsection (2) (standards) available for inspection during working hours free of charge at the head office of the Ministry of Health and at any other places that the Director-General determines are appropriate; and
    1. must make copies of the standards available for purchase at a reasonable price; and
      1. may make copies of the standards available in any other way that the Director-General considers appropriate in the circumstances (for example, on an Internet website); and
        1. must give notice in the Gazette stating that—
          1. the standards are incorporated in the regulations and the date on which the regulations were made; and
            1. the standards are available for inspection during working hours, free of charge, and the location of the place or places at which they can be inspected; and
              1. copies of the standards can be purchased and the location of the place or places at which they can be purchased; and
                1. if copies of the standards are made available under paragraph (c), the standards are available in other ways and details of where or how they can be accessed or obtained.

                2. The standards are—

                3. standards incorporated by reference in regulations made under section 112ZF(1)(g):
                  1. any amendment to, or replacement of, those standards that is incorporated in the regulations or the standards referred to in paragraph (a) with the amendments or replacement standards incorporated.

                    1. A failure to comply with this section does not invalidate regulations that incorporate standards by reference.

                    Notes
                    • Section 112ZL: inserted, on , by section 4 of the Health (National Cervical Screening Programme) Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 3).
                    • Section 112ZL(1): replaced, on , by section 4 of the Health Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 34).