8 SEPTEMBER 2011 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 138 3961

Northpower Limited

Electricity Distribution (Information Disclosure) Requirements 2008

Notice of Publication of Information Disclosures—Northpower Limited

Pursuant to the Electricity Distribution (Information Disclosure) Requirements 2008, the board of directors of Northpower Limited gives notice that its information disclosures for the period 1 April 2010 to 31 March 2011 have been published and can be downloaded from Northpower Limited’s website

www.northpower.com

Hard copies of the information disclosures may be inspected at or obtained from Northpower Limited, 28 Mount Pleasant Road, Raumanga, Whangarei 0110 or Private Bag 9018, Whangarei 0148.

Dated this 31st day of August 2011.

WARREN WILLIAM MOYES, Director, Northpower Limited.

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Podiatrists Board

Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003

Notice Revoking the Podiatrists Board Scope of Practice of Podiatric Prescriber and Amending the Podiatrists Board Scope of Practice of Visiting Podiatrist Educator

Pursuant to section 11(1) of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003, the board specifies five scopes of practice as follows:

1. Scope of Practice – Podiatrist
   A registered primary health care practitioner (including those previously registered as a chiropodist) who utilises medical, physical, palliative and surgical means other than those prescribed in the Podiatric Surgeon Scope of Practice, to provide diagnostic, preventative and rehabilitative treatment of conditions affecting the feet and lower limbs.

2. Scope of Practice – Podiatric Surgeon
   A registered primary health care practitioner who holds the Scope of Practice of Podiatrist and is further qualified to perform foot surgery by way of sharp toe nail wedge resection; surgical correction of lesser digital deformities affecting the phalanges, metatarsals and associated structures; surgical corrections of deformities affecting the first toe, first metatarsal and associated structures; surgical correction of osseous deformities of the metatarsus, mid-tarsus, rearfoot and associated structures; surgical correction and removal of pathological subcutaneous structures such as tendinous and nervous tissues and other connective soft tissue masses of the foot. (The Podiatrists Board does not approve of any Podiatric Surgeon performing any procedure beyond their competence, training and qualifications.)

3. Scope of Practice – Podiatric Radiographic Imager
   A registered primary health care practitioner who holds the Scope of Practice of Podiatrist, who is qualified to use radiological equipment, and is licensed by the National Radiation Laboratory, to obtain plain radiographic images of the foot, ankle and lower leg.

4. Scope of Practice – Podiatric Prescriber
   A registered primary health care practitioner who holds the Scope of Practice of Podiatrist and is further qualified to prescribe a list of medications approved by the Podiatrists Board. (Subject to prescribing rights being granted by the New Prescribers Advisory Committee.)

5. Scope of Practice – Visiting Podiatrist Educator
   A visiting registered podiatrist who qualifies for the Scope of Practice of Podiatrist, and when appropriate for their speciality area of education, also qualifies for an additional Scope of Practice of Podiatric Surgeon and/or Podiatric Radiographic Imager and/or Podiatric Prescriber as determined by the Podiatrists Board, who is presenting short-term educational/instructional programmes requiring demonstrations or practices, of a clinical or practical nature.

The Podiatrists Board

1. revokes the Scope of Practice of Podiatric Prescriber and related qualifications' notice, published in the Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette, 15 September 2004, No. 120, page 2974; and

2. amends the wording of the Scope of Practice of Visiting Podiatrist Educator, published in the New Zealand Gazette, 11 May 2006, No. 42, page 1132, to add "Presenter" to the "Visiting Podiatrist Educator/Presenter" title and to remove "Podiatric Prescriber" within the definition of Scope of Practice of Visiting Podiatrist Educator, to now read:

   "4. Scope of Practice – Visiting Podiatrist Educator/Presenter
   A visiting registered podiatrist who qualifies for the Scope of Practice of Podiatrist, and when appropriate for their speciality area of education, also qualifies for an additional Scope of Practice of Podiatric Surgeon and/or Podiatric Radiographic Imager as determined by the Podiatrists Board, who is presenting short-term educational/instructional programmes requiring demonstrations or practices, of a clinical or practical nature."

Dated at Wellington this 8th day of September 2011.

ANNABEL WHINAM, Registrar, Podiatrists Board.

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