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Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022

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93: Expert advisory committee on public health

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"A group of experts gives advice on public health to help keep people healthy."

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The Minister must set up a group called the expert advisory committee on public health. You will see this group giving advice to the Minister, the Public Health Agency, and Health New Zealand about public health issues. The Minister decides who is on the committee after talking to the Hauora Māori Advisory Committee. The committee gives advice on things like what affects people's health and how to promote public health. The Minister must choose committee members who know about population health, health equity, and te Tiriti o Waitangi. Each member of the committee is appointed on certain terms and conditions decided by the Minister. The Minister can change who is on the committee and what they do, as seen in the amendment made by section 37 of the Pae Ora (Disestablishment of Māori Health Authority) Amendment Act 2024. The committee can decide how it wants to work, as long as it follows any directions from the Minister. The Minister must make sure the committee has the right skills and knowledge to give good advice.

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Committees: Expert advisory committee on public health

93Expert advisory committee on public health

  1. The Minister must establish an expert advisory committee on public health.

  2. The purpose of the committee is to provide independent advice to the Minister, the Public Health Agency, and Health New Zealand on the following matters:

  3. public health issues, including factors underlying the health of people, whānau, and communities:
    1. the promotion of public health:
      1. any other matters that the Minister or the Public Health Agency specifies by notice to the committee.

        1. The committee—

        2. consists of such members as the Minister determines after consulting the Hauora Māori Advisory Committee; and
          1. may, subject to any written directions that the Minister gives to the committee, regulate its procedure in any manner that the committee thinks fit.

            1. When determining appointments to the committee, the Minister must be satisfied that the committee collectively has knowledge of, and experience and expertise in relation to, population health, health equity, te Tiriti o Waitangi (the Treaty of Waitangi), epidemiology, health intelligence, health surveillance, health promotion, health protection, and preventative health.

            2. Each member of the committee is appointed on any terms and conditions (including terms and conditions as to remuneration and travelling allowances and expenses) that the Minister determines by written notice to the member.

            Notes
            • Section 93(2): amended, on , by section 37 of the Pae Ora (Disestablishment of Māori Health Authority) Amendment Act 2024 (2024 No 5).