New Zealand Acts

PAE ORA (HEALTHY FUTURES) ACT 2022 - SECT 99

99 Minister’s approval required for health entity’s dealings with land

1 A health entity must not sell, exchange, mortgage, or charge land without the Minister's prior written approval.

2 A health entity must not grant a lease or licence over land for a term of more than 5 years without the Minister’s prior written approval.

3 For the purposes of subsection (2), the term of a lease or licence includes any period (or, if the lease or licence provides for more than 1 such period, the total period) for which any person is entitled to have the lease or licence renewed.

4 Any approval under this section may be subject to any conditions the Minister specifies, and may be given in respect of any land of a class the Minister specifies.

5 To avoid doubt, the matters to which the Minister may have regard in giving an approval under subsection (2) in relation to any land include the question of the application to the land of clause 3 of Schedule 1 of the Health Sector (Transfers) Act 1993 .

6 This section applies despite sections 16 and 17 of the Crown Entities Act 2004 .

7 In this section,
"health entity" includes a Crown entity subsidiary of a health entity.