Reprint as at 29 April 2009
| Public Act | 1956 No 65 |
| Date of assent | 25 October 1956 |
Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this eprint.
A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this eprint, together with other explanatory material about this eprint.
This Act is administered in the Ministry of Health
4 Department of Health [Repealed]
5 Director-General of Health [Repealed]
5B Delegation of powers by Director-General [Repealed]
6 Other officers and employees [Repealed]
6A Part-time Deputy Medical Officers of Health [Repealed]
7 Principal functions of Department [Repealed]
9 Delegation of powers by Minister [Repealed]
9A Advisory Committees and subcommittees [Repealed]
10 Annual Report [Repealed]
11 Board of Health [Repealed]
11A Chairman and Deputy Chairman [Repealed]
12 Remuneration and travelling allowances [Repealed]
13 Meetings and procedure of Board [Repealed]
14 Seal of Board [Repealed]
15 Secretary to Board [Repealed]
16 Functions of Board [Repealed]
18 Committees of Board [Repealed]
18A Ad hoc subcommittees [Repealed]
22I Offence to fail to retain health information [Repealed]
Appointment of Environmental Health Officers
40 Sanitary requirements for business premises [Repealed]
48 Local authority may require demolition [Repealed]
49 District Court may make demolition order [Repealed]
51 Enforcement of demolition order [Repealed]
53 Restriction on use of materials for building [Repealed]
56 [Repealed]
Pollution of watercourses, etc
69 Duties and powers of Harbour Boards [Repealed]
69F Bulk suppliers, networked suppliers, water carriers, and designated ports or airports may elect earlier compliance
Registration of drinking-water suppliers and certain self-suppliers
Duties of drinking-water suppliers and temporary drinking-water suppliers
69ZA Medical officer of health may require preparation and implementation of public health risk management plan
69ZG Duty to provide reasonable assistance to drinking-water assessors, designated officers, and medical officers of health
Drinking-water assessors and designated officers
69ZZF Actions taken under emergency powers may be exempted from requirements of Part 3 of Resource Management Act 1991
Contamination of water supplies and sources
69ZZP Local authority may be required to warn users of self-supplied building water supplies about contamination
71A Power of members of police to assist Medical Officer of Health in relation to infectious diseases
72 Offences relating to obstructing Medical Officer of Health or people assisting Medical Officer of Health
74A National Cervical Screening Register [Repealed]
92A Interpretation [Repealed]
92E Exemptions [Repealed]
92F Unauthorised advertising prohibited [Repealed]
92I Exemption from Part 2 of Commerce Act 1986 [Repealed]
92J Protection of appointed entities [Repealed]
92K Exemption from Part 2 of Commerce Act 1986 [Repealed]
93 Port Health Officers [Repealed]
97D Powers and duties of Medical Officer of Health or Health Protection Officer in relation to quarantinable diseases
103 Aircraft declaration [Repealed]
104 Offences under last 2 preceding sections [Repealed]
Duties to provide information to women and to NCSP
Review of NCSP and duty of Director-General to report
Screening programme evaluators
112ZA Screening programme evaluator may publish non-identifiable information obtained during evaluation
Duties to provide information to screening programme evaluators
112ZE Screening programme employees may retain, access, use, and disclose information to perform functions
112ZH Effect of amendments to, or replacement of, standards incorporated by reference in regulations
112ZM Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 not applicable to standards incorporated by reference
113 [Repealed]
114 [Repealed]
115 [Repealed]
116 [Repealed]
121 Regulations as to qualifications of Environmental Health Officers appointed by local authorities
126A Persons attempting to commit suicide [Repealed]
126B Blood transfusions [Repealed]
Schedule 2
Diseases notifiable to Medical Officer of Health (other than notifiable infectious diseases)
[Repealed]
Schedule 5
Noxious or offensive gases
[Repealed]
[Repealed]
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to public health
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: