Social Security Act 2018

Assistance - Special assistance

99: Overseas epidemics affecting visitors to New Zealand: Minister may give overseas epidemic management notice

You could also call this:

"Minister can create a notice to help keep visitors safe if a disease outbreak happens overseas"

The Minister can create a special notice if a disease outbreak happens outside New Zealand and it might cause problems for visitors who want to go home. This notice starts as soon as it is made and ends after three months, or on a date stated in the notice, or on a date the Minister decides later. The Minister can make a new notice about the same disease before or after the old one ends.

The Minister must get advice from the Ministry of Health before making this notice. A quarantinable disease is a disease that is defined in section 2(1) of the Health Act 1956. This type of notice is called secondary legislation, which has rules about how it is published, as explained in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

You can think of the Minister as a person who helps make big decisions to keep people safe. The Ministry of Health is a group of people who help the Minister make good decisions about health. When the Minister makes a notice, it is like sending a message to everyone about what is happening and what they need to do.

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99Overseas epidemics affecting visitors to New Zealand: Minister may give overseas epidemic management notice

  1. The Minister may, by written notice, declare that the effects of an outbreak outside New Zealand of a stated quarantinable disease are likely to cause hardship to people temporarily in New Zealand by preventing or hindering their prompt return to stated places.

  2. The notice comes into force on its commencement, and expires on the earliest of the following:

  3. the day 3 months after its commencement:
    1. a day stated in the notice:
      1. a day stated by the Minister by further written notice.
        1. Before or after the notice expires, the Minister can give a new notice in respect of the same disease.

        2. The Minister must not give the notice except on, and after considering, the written recommendation of the chief executive of the Ministry of Health.

        3. In subsection (1), quarantinable disease has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Health Act 1956.

        4. A notice under this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

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        • Section 99(6): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).