8 AUGUST NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 2181

Health

Health and Disability Services Act 1993

Appointment to the Northern Regional Health Authority

Pursuant to section 35 (2) of the Health and Disability Services Act 1993, the following person is hereby appointed as a director of the Northern Regional Health Authority for a term commencing on the 30th day of July 1996 and expiring on the date specified below:

Name Occupation Address Expiry Date
Dr Graeme Fenton General Practitioner Moerewa 29 July 1999

Dated at Wellington this 5th day of August 1996.

JENNY SHIPLEY, Minister of Health.

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Medical Practitioners Act 1995

Medical Council of New Zealand

Medical Practitioners (Election of Medical Members of Council) Rules 1996

Pursuant to section 125 (2) (a) of the Medical Practitioners Act 1995, I, Jennifer Mary Shipley, Minister of Health, hereby approve the Medical Practitioners (Election of Medical Members of Council) Rules 1996, made by the Medical Council of New Zealand.

Dated at Wellington this 5th day of August 1996.

HON. JENNY SHIPLEY, Minister of Health.

Medical Practitioners (Election of Medical Members of Council) Rules 1996

1. Title and commencement—(1) These rules may be cited as the Medical Practitioners (Election of Medical Members of Council) Rules 1996.

(2) These rules shall come into force on the day the rules, as approved by the Minister of Health, are published in the Gazette.

2. Interpretation—The terms used in these rules and defined in the Medical Practitioners Act 1995 have the same meaning as in that Act.

3. Dates on which election of members of Medical Council to be held—The election of 4 members of the Medical Council for the purposes of section 124 (c) of the Act shall be carried out at elections to be held—

(a) during the month of November 1996; and

(b) during the month of November in every third year after that year,—

on a date in that month to be fixed by the President, who shall also fix the hour at which the poll will be closed.

4. Returning Officer for elections—The Registrar shall be the Returning Officer for any such election.

5. Eligibility to be elected—A medical practitioner is eligible for election to the Council if, on the date nominations close for election, the practitioner is registered.

6. Notice of election to be sent to registered medical practitioners—At least 90 clear days before the date on which an election is to be held, the Returning Officer shall send to each registered medical practitioner a notice setting out—

(a) the date of the election and the hour the poll will close;

(b) the date and the hour on which the nomination of candidates will close; and

(c) the prescribed form for nominations, as set out in rule 7 below.

7. Candidates for election—(1) Every candidate for election must be nominated in writing on a form specified by the Council, with respective registration number indicated, by 15 other registered medical practitioners eligible to vote.

(2) The nomination form—

(a) shall contain the registration number, full name and registered address of the registered medical practitioner nominated, the written consent of the nominee and a biographical sketch (maximum 150 words) in a format specified by the Council, and

(b) may also include a statement to voters (maximum 100 words) prepared by the nominee and a recent photograph, and

(c) shall be forwarded to the Returning Officer so as to reach him or her not later than 60 clear days before the date of the election. Any nomination not received within that time shall be invalid and shall be disregarded.

(3) Information supplied by candidates will be edited to comply with a standard format and sent out to electors with the voting papers.

8. Position where only four nominees—(1) If at any election only four candidates are nominated for election, the Returning Officer shall declare the candidates so nominated to be duly elected.

(2) Every such declaration shall be made by notice in the Gazette as soon as practicable after the date upon which the nominations close.

9. Position where more than four nominees—(1) If at any election more than four candidates are nominated for election, an election shall be conducted by postal ballot in accordance with the following provisions:

(a) The register of medical practitioners as it stands on the day, and at the time, on which nominations close shall be used as the register for the purposes of the election, and each name in the register shall be distinctively numbered for the purposes of the election:

(b) The Returning Officer shall, immediately after the day on which nominations close, prepare ballot papers according to subclauses (2) and (3) below:

(2) Every ballot paper shall—

(a) contain the full names of each candidate, and

(b) list the candidates in the order determined by lot by the Returning Officer in the presence of a member of the Council, and

(c) list the names of each candidate with the family name first.

(3) Ballot papers shall be in a form specified by the Council, and shall state that to be a valid vote it must reach the Returning Officer by the time and date fixed for holding the election.

(4) The Returning Officer shall as soon as possible after the ballot papers have been prepared, and not less than 30 days before the date fixed for the election, send one ballot paper, together with an envelope addressed to the Returning Officer, Medical Council, Wellington, marked “ballot paper”, by post to every registered medical practitioner on the electoral roll:

(5) No ballot paper shall be valid unless it is received by the Returning Officer, in the envelope issued with the ballot paper, before the time and date fixed for the election.

10. Voting—(1) Voting shall be by the single transferable vote method, which requires voters to place candidates in