THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

No. 39

Area
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1085 ) Parts State Highway No. 2, respectively marked L and N
1675 ) on plan.

Situated in Block II, Aongatete Survey District.

As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L.O. 34633 (S.O. 5.1663), deposited in the office of the New Zealand Railways Corporation at Wellington, and thereon marked as above-mentioned.

Dated at Wellington this 4th day of March 1985.

A. E. McQUEEN,
for General Manager, New Zealand Railways Corporation.
(N.Z.R. L.O. 31297/78)

Declaring Railway Land Between Dunroon and Kurow (Kurow Branch Railway) Not Now Required for That Purpose to be Crown Land

PURSUANT to sections 24 and 30 of the New Zealand Railways Corporation Act 1981 and section 42 of the Public Works Act 1981, the General Manager of the New Zealand Railways Corporation with the prior written consent of the Minister of Railways hereby declares the land described in the Schedule hereto to be Crown land, subject to the Land Act 1948.

SCHEDULE

Otago Land District—Waitaki County

All those pieces of railway land described as follows:

Situated in Blocks IV, V and XII, Maerewhenua Survey District and Block I, Kurow Survey District.

Dated at Wellington this 26th day of February 1985.

A. E. McQUEEN,
for General Manager, New Zealand Railways Corporation.
(N.Z.R. L.O. 31477/21 (1))

Special Arrangement for Fees for General Medical Services Provided as Paediatric Services

PURSUANT to section 117 (1) of the Social Security Act 1964, Michael Edward Ralston Bassett hereby makes the following special arrangement for fees for general medical services provided to children by medical practitioners who signify that they are willing to supply paediatric services for the fees and in accordance with the terms of this special arrangement:

Interpretation

For the purposes of this special arrangement:

1. “Paediatric services” means those general medical services provided to:
   (1) A child in respect of whom a family benefit is being paid.
   (2) A child in respect of whom a family benefit would be paid under Part I of the Social Security Act 1964, if the Social Security Commission were satisfied that the child is likely to remain permanently in New Zealand.

2. “Consultation” shall mean any general medical service other than an immunisation.

3. “Surgery consultation” means a consultation provided at the medical practitioner’s surgery or place of residence.

4. “Visit” means a consultation provided at any place other than at the medical practitioner’s surgery or place of residence.

5. “Urgent” as in urgent surgery consultation or urgent visit shall refer to any general medical service for which additional fees are payable under the provisions of section 93A of the Social Security Act 1964.

6. “Department” means the Department of Health.

Terms of special arrangement

1. From 1 February 1985 and thereafter during the currency of this special arrangement, sections 93 and 93A of the Social Security Act 1964 shall not apply to paediatric services by any medical practitioner who has notified a Medical Officer of Health of his name, the address of his surgery, and that he is willing to supply paediatric services in terms of this special arrangement, and instead of the fee provided by the said sections 93 and 93A, the following fees will be payable:

2. Subject to clause 7 hereof, in respect of all paediatric services for which the above fees by way of benefit are claimed the total fees for surgery consultations which a medical practitioner may charge to patients inclusive of the fees by way of benefit shall be equal to or less than the fees (herein after called the “guideline fees”) which shall be:

(Until reviewed under clause 4 of this agreement or of such higher fee as the Minister may approve in respect of individual medical practitioners on the recommendation of a Children’s Fees Advisory Committee or the Central Paediatric Fees Committee as hereinafter described.)

No guideline fee shall apply in respect of visits.

3. The guideline fees provided by clause 2 of this special arrangement shall, by 1 August in each year, be reviewed by a committee to be known as the “Central Paediatric Fees Committee” appointed by the Minister of Health, under section 121 of the Social Security Act 1964.

4. The terms of reference for the committee appointed under clause 3 hereof shall be:
   (a) To determine the guideline fees for paediatric services by way of surgery consultation and urgent surgery consultation with a general practitioner for each year beginning 1 August, and
   (b) To consider applications, from individual medical practitioners, referred to it by a Children’s Advisory Fees Committee, to charge a specified amount (hereafter called “the premium fee”), over and above the guideline fee and to make a recommendation to the Minister in accordance with clause 2 hereof.
   (c) To report as required to the Minister on the level of premium fees recommended by the Children’s Fees Advisory Committees.

5. If the Central Paediatric Fees Committee appointed under clause 3 of this special arrangement fails to agree by a majority on guideline fees as from 1 August in any year the matter shall be referred to an arbitrator appointed by the Minister. This clause shall be deemed to be a submission within the meaning of the Arbitration Act 1908; and all the provisions of the Arbitration Act 1908 applicable to such a submission, including section 4 (implied terms) shall be incorporated therein.

6. Twenty-one Children’s Fees Advisory Committees will be appointed by the Minister under section 121 of the Social Security Act 1964. The committees’ geographical areas of responsibility will correspond to the divisional areas of the New Zealand Medical Association.

Each committee will comprise 4 members:

• Two general practitioners appointed by the Minister of Health.
• A Medical Officer of Health.
• One lay member appointed by the Minister of Health.

The committees will be serviced by the department.

The committee will—
(1) Examine and assess the justification for those fees for paediatric services of those doctors who either are in the special arrangement, or who apply to enter the special arrangement, and who wish to charge premium fees for paediatric services over and above the guideline fees.