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• Promotion of public health through prevention work, the education of the public, and consultation with community groups, Government departments, and other relevant agencies:

  • Ensuring appropriate planning and management of public health nursing services (including services performed by health assistants) in accordance with Government policy.

  • The provision of such other nursing services as may be required in accordance with Government policy.

Food Act 1981:

Functions—The promotion and conservation of health in relation to food by the supervision of compliance with the Food Act 1981, the Food Hygiene Regulations 1974, the Food Regulations 1984, and the Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985, insofar as it is carried out by employees of an area health board, by ensuring that all persons on whom obligations are imposed by the said Act and regulations meet those obligations, and otherwise comply with the said Act and regulations.

Social Security Act 1964, Part II:

Functions—The promotion and conservation of health, in the following respects:

• Routine management of the dental benefits programme in accordance with the Social Security Act 1964, Part II, and the Social Security (Dental Benefits) Regulations 1983;

• The provision of advice and assistance to members of the public with respect to the benefits provided under the Social Security Act 1964, Part II, and the regulations made thereunder.

Toxic Substances Act 1979:

Functions—The promotion and conservation of health in relation to toxic substances by the supervision of compliance with the Toxic Substances Act 1979 and the Toxic Substances Regulations 1983, insofar as it is carried out by employees of an area health board, by ensuring that all persons on whom obligations are imposed by the said Act and regulations meet those obligations and otherwise comply with the said Act and regulations.

PART B

Delegation Conditions

1. Except as provided in clause 2 of these conditions, nothing in this delegation shall confer on the Nelson Area Health Board (in this part called “the Board”) the function of instituting proceedings for alleged offences against any of the Acts or regulations referred to in Part A of the Schedule to this delegation.

2. The Board shall have the function of instituting proceedings for alleged offences against the Food Act 1981, the Food Hygiene Regulations 1974, the Food Regulations 1984, the Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985. Where the Board requires the services of counsel with respect to any proceedings so instituted it shall instruct the Crown Solicitor in the area health district to represent the Board in the proceedings.

3. Where, in the view of the Board, offences against any of the Acts or regulations referred to in Part A of the Schedule to this delegation (other than the Food Act 1981, the Food Hygiene Regulations 1974, the Food Regulations 1984, and the Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985) have occurred, the Board shall inform the Department of Health, to enable prosecution of the alleged offender at the instance of an officer of the department to be considered.

Dated at Wellington this 2nd day of October 1985.

R. A. BARKER, Director-General of Health.

Delegation of Functions of Department of Health to Wanganui 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 to the Wanganui 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:

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 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 inspectors’ courses:

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

Public Health

Functions—The provision of advice to local authorities in matters relating to public health; the prevention, limitation, and suppression in 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, motels, 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.