New Zealand Gazette – 1987 – No. 87

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✨ Committee of Inquiry Directive



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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 87

And, in accordance with section 13 (3) of the Hospitals Act 1957, I direct that you, the Committee, shall have the powers of a Commission under the Commissions of Inquiry Act 1908, and the provisions of that Act, except sections 11 and 12 (which relate to costs), shall apply as if the inquiry were an inquiry under that Act:

And for better enabling you to carry these presents into effect you are hereby authorised and empowered to make and conduct any inquiry under these presents in accordance with the Commissions of Inquiry Act 1908, at such times and places as you consider expedient, with power to adjourn from time to time and from place to place as you think fit, and so that these presents shall continue in force and the inquiry may at any time and place be resumed although not regularly adjourned from time to time or from place to place:

And you are hereby strictly charged and directed that you shall not at any time publish or otherwise disclose, save to me in pursuance of these presents or by my direction, the contents or purport of any report so made or to be made by you, or any evidence or information obtained by you in the exercise of the powers hereby conferred upon you, except such evidence or information as is received in the course of a sitting open to the public:

And it is hereby declared that you have liberty to report your proceedings and findings from time to time if you shall judge it expedient to do so:

And, using all due diligence, you are required to report to me in writing under your hand not later than the 31st day of August 1987 your findings and opinions on the matters aforesaid, together with such recommendations as you think fit to make in respect thereof.

Dated at Wellington this 10th day of June 1987.

MICHAEL BASSETT,
Minister of Health.

BY AUTHORITY: V. R. WARD, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND—1987
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🏥 Appointment of Committee of Inquiry into Cervical Cancer Treatment Allegations (continued from previous page)

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
10 June 1987
Committee of Inquiry, Cervical Cancer, National Women’s Hospital, Allegations, Treatment, Research Programme, Patient Rights, Training, Detection
  • Michael Bassett, Minister of Health