New Zealand Acts

PAE ORA (HEALTHY FUTURES) ACT 2022

- As at 25 October 2024
- Act 30 of 2022

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   1.      Title
   2.      Commencement

   PART 1 - Preliminary provisions

   3.      Purpose of this Act
   4.      Interpretation
   5.      Guide to this Act
   6.      Te Tiriti o Waitangi (the Treaty of Waitangi)
   7.      Health sector principles
   8.      Transitional, savings, and related provisions
   9.      Act binds the Crown

   PART 2 - Key roles and health documents

           SUBPART 1 - Minister of Health

   10.     Overview of Minister’s role

           SUBPART 2 - Health New Zealand

   11.     Health New Zealand established
   12.     Board of Health New Zealand
   13.     Objectives of Health New Zealand
   14.     Functions of Health New Zealand
   15.     Health New Zealand must support and engage with iwi-Māori partnership boards
   16.     Additional collective duties of board of Health New Zealand
   16A.    Engaging with and reporting to Māori

           SUBPART 3 - Māori Health Authority
           Note

   17.     Māori Health Authority established
   18.     Objectives of Māori Health Authority
   19.     Functions of Māori Health Authority
   20.     Engaging with and reporting to Māori
   21.     Māori Health Authority to support and engage with iwi-Māori partnership boards
   22.     Board of Māori Health Authority
   23.     Removal of members
   24.     Financial operations of Māori Health Authority
   25.     Application of Crown Entities Act 2004 to Māori Health Authority
   26.     Application of Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 to Māori Health Authority
   27.     Application of Public Service Act 2020 to Māori Health Authority
   28.     Application of Public Records Act 2005

           SUBPART 4 - Iwi-Māori partnership boards

   29.     Purpose of iwi-Māori partnership boards
   30.     Functions of iwi-Māori partnership boards
   31.     Recognition of iwi-Māori partnership boards

           SUBPART 5 - Disputes
           Note

   32.     Disputes between Health New Zealand, Māori Health Authority, and others

           SUBPART 6 - Key health documents

   33.     Overview of important health documents
   34.     GPS
   35.     Preparation of GPS
   36.     Content of GPS
   37.     GPS must be made available
   38.     Status of GPS
   39.     Health entities must give effect to GPS
   40.     Amending GPS
   41.     New Zealand Health Strategy
   42.     Hauora Māori Strategy
   43.     Pacific Health Strategy
   44.     Health of Disabled People Strategy
   45.     Women’s Health Strategy
   46.     Rural Health Strategy
   46A.    Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy
   47.     Process for making health strategy
   48.     Review and progress of health strategy
   49.     Health entities must have regard to health strategies
   50.     New Zealand Health Plan
   51.     Content of New Zealand Health Plan
   52.     Report of performance against New Zealand Health Plan
   53.     Process for preparing New Zealand Health Plan
   54.     Determination of localities
   55.     Locality plans
   56.     New Zealand Health Charter
   57.     Making of charter
   58.     Report on charter
   59.     Code for consumer and whānau engagement in health sector
   60.     Health entities must act in accordance with code

           SUBPART 7 - Ministerial powers

   61.     Minister may appoint Crown observers
   62.     Minister may dismiss board or appoint commissioner
   63.     Minister may appoint Crown manager for Health New Zealand
   64.     Improvement plan
   65.     Provision of information
   66.     Restrictions on directions under section 103 of Crown Entities Act 2004

   PART 3 - Other roles

           SUBPART 1 - Pharmac

   67.     Pharmac
   68.     Objectives of Pharmac
   69.     Functions of Pharmac
   70.     Pharmac to consult in implementing objectives and performing functions
   71.     Board of Pharmac to ensure advisory committees
   72.     Publication of notices
   73.     Membership of board of Pharmac
   74.     Exemption from Part 2 of Commerce Act 1986

           SUBPART 2 - New Zealand Blood and Organ Service

   75.     NZBOS
   76.     Functions of NZBOS
   77.     Membership of board

           SUBPART 3 - Health Quality and Safety Commission

   78.     Health Quality and Safety Commission
   79.     Objectives of HQSC
   80.     Functions of HQSC
   81.     Membership of board of HQSC
   82.     HQSC may appoint mortality review committees

           SUBPART 4 - Provisions that apply to Pharmac, NZBOS, and HQSC

   83.     Organisation defined
   84.     Responsibility to operate in financially responsible manner
   85.     Public Records Act 2005 to apply
   86.     Committees

           SUBPART 5 - Committees

   87.     Ministerial committees
   88.     Information about ministerial committees to be made public
   89.     Hauora Māori Advisory Committee
   90.     Membership of Hauora Māori Advisory Committee
   91.     Listing of organisations in Schedule 2
   92.     National advisory committee on health services ethics
   93.     Expert advisory committee on public health

   PART 4 - General

           SUBPART 1 - Powers in relation to service commissioning

   94.     Arrangements relating to payments
   95.     Restrictions on notices given under section 94

           SUBPART 2 - Provisions that apply to health entities

   96.     Accountability documents
   97.     Director-General may require information from health entities
   98.     Health entities must provide information
   99.     Minister’s approval required for health entity’s dealings with land

           SUBPART 3 - Review of Act

   100.    Act must be reviewed every 5 years

           SUBPART 4 - Secondary legislation

   101.    Levies for alcohol-related purposes
   102.    Regulations

           SUBPART 5 - Amendments to enactments

   103.    Enactments repealed and revoked
   104.    Consequential amendments
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4
           SCHEDULE 5
           SCHEDULE 6
           SCHEDULE 7