3 OCTOBER THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 4331

Whitemans Road: from North Road to a point 20 metres measured westerly, generally, along the said road from Leonard Street.
Williams Street.
Wynyard Street.

Signed at Wellington this 26th day of September 1985.

C. M. CLISSOLD, Chief Traffic Engineer.

Notice of Approval of Reflectorised Materials for Use on Traffic Signs and Delineators

NOTICE

Pursuant to regulation 130 (1) of the Traffic Regulations 1976*, and pursuant to the powers delegated to me by the Secretary for Transport, I, Carme Maurice Clissold, Chief Traffic Engineer, hereby approve reflective materials for the make and type described in the Schedule hereto, to be used for reflectorised signs and delineators.

The notice dated the 25th day of August 1982, issued pursuant to regulation 130 (1) of the Traffic Regulations 1976, is hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE

Engineering Grade Scotchlite.
High Intensity Scotchlite (white, green or red coloured only).
Unilite Sparkline.
Nichibanite.
Seibulite.
Toshilite (red, green and snow white for use on flat surfaces).

Dated at Wellington this 27th day of September 1985.

C. M. CLISSOLD, Chief Traffic Engineer.

*S.R. 1976/227
Amendment No. 1: S.R. 1978/72
Amendment No. 2: S.R. 1979/301
Amendment No. 3: S.R. 1979/128
Amendment No. 4: S.R. 1980/31
Amendment No. 5: S.R. 1980/115
Amendment No. 6: S.R. 1981/158
Amendment No. 7: S.R. 1981/311
Amendment No. 8: S.R. 1982/93

(M.O.T. 29/18/5)

Delegation of Functions of Department of Health to Nelson Area Health Board

Pursuant to section 36 (2) of the Area Health Boards Act 1983, I, Ronald Albert Barker, Director-General of Health, hereby delegate, with the consent of the Minister of Health, to the Nelson Area Health Board the functions of the Department of Health specified in Part A of the Schedule to this delegation, subject to the conditions set out in Part B of the Schedule to this delegation.

SCHEDULE

PART A

Delegated Functions

Health Act 1956:

Public Health

Functions—The provision of advice to local authorities in matters relating to public health; the prevention, limitation, and suppression of infectious and other diseases; the promotion and carrying out of researches and investigations on matters concerning public health and the prevention or treatment of disease; the organisation and control of medical services so far as such services are paid for out of public money; the taking of all such steps as may be desirable to secure the preparation, effective carrying out, and co-ordination of measures conducive to the public health; all in the following respects:

Environmental Health

• The promotion, surveillance, and evaluation of public water supplies and community water supplies; the preparation of reports for loan and subsidy applications for waterworks; the promotion of improved standards of treatment and operation of water supplies; the provision of advice and assistance to local authorities on water supplies; the investigation of complaints concerning water supplies.

• The promotion, surveillance, and evaluation of sewerage and of sewage disposal systems and other methods of human waste disposal; the preparation of reports for loan and subsidy applications for sewage disposal works; the provision of advice and assistance to local authorities concerning sewerage and sewage disposal systems; the promotion of improved standards of treatment and operation of sewerage and sewage disposal systems; the investigation of complaints concerning sewerage and sewage disposal systems.

• The promotion, surveillance, and evaluation of solid waste collection and disposal systems; the preparation of reports for loan and subsidy applications for solid waste management; the provision of advice and assistance to local authorities concerning solid waste collection and disposal; the promotion of improved standards of operation and management concerning solid waste collection and disposal; the investigation of complaints concerning solid waste collection and disposal.

• The promotion, surveillance, and evaluation of hazardous waste disposal systems; the preparation of reports for loan and subsidy applications for hazardous waste management; the provision of advice and assistance to local authorities concerning hazardous waste disposal; the promotion of improved standards of operation and management concerning hazardous waste disposal; the investigation of complaints concerning hazardous waste disposal.

• The surveillance and evaluation of swimming pool sanitation; the promotion of adequate standards of swimming pool sanitation.

• The surveillance and evaluation of the effectiveness of pest control; the provision of advice and assistance to local authorities and harbour boards on the control of rats, vermin, and insect pests.

• The periodic review of the sanitary condition of dwellings, boarding houses, hostels, hotels, old peoples' homes, and camping grounds.

• The provision of advice to local authorities on public health needs with respect to public health issues of regional planning schemes and district planning schemes.

• The investigation of odour emission, and other undesirable emissions, to the atmosphere, consultation, where appropriate, with the regional air pollution control officer and the local authority concerned.

• The establishment and operation of monitoring programmes to measure air pollution in the area health district or any part thereof.

• The surveillance and periodic evaluation of the noise climate; the provision of advice and assistance to local authorities on environmental noise; undertaking environmental noise surveys.

• The provision of advice and assistance to local authorities, Government departments, public hospitals, and private hospitals, with respect to public health matters and health protection matters, as may be required.

• The provision of advice and assistance to local authorities, regional councils, and united councils, with respect to public health aspects of civil defence.

• The investigation of applications for the establishment of offensive trades; the investigation of any proposal for the erection or extension of any premises for the purposes of or in connection with any offensive trade; granting or refusing consent to applications for the establishment or extension of any offensive trade.

• The provision of health inspection services to local authorities.

Dental Health

Functions—The organisation and control of dental services so far as such services are paid for out of public money, in the following respects:

• Management and maintenance of the School Dental Service, including consultation with Education Boards, in accordance with Government policy.

• Having epidemiological surveys made for the purpose of identifying and analysing local dental health needs, measuring the extent to which needs are being met, and developing local dental health objectives and plans to meet those objectives within Government policy guidelines.

• Consultation with the dental profession.

• The provision and maintenance of dental services in hospitals.

• Co-ordinating dental care services to ensure the availability and provision of dental care of a high standard throughout the area health district.

• Providing public health dentistry and preventive dentistry components in the training programmes at schools of nursing and health inspections' courses.

• Planning and co-ordinating study programmes and observation programmes for international aid students.