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before or as soon as practicable after that revocation
takes effect:
(a) review the disability allowances of persons
being supplied with medical alarm services by
that company having regard to clause 6A; and
(b) take reasonable steps to assist those persons
to obtain medical alarm services from another
accredited alarm company and confirm or
vary the rate of their disability allowances
accordingly.

Transitional arrangements in relation to approved alarm companies

12 In clauses 13 to 17, approved alarm company means
a company that was, immediately before the
commencement of this clause, an approved supplier
of medical alarm services under the processes
established under the former clause 8^4 of this
direction (as in force immediately before that
commencement).

13 As soon as practicable after the establishment of the
accreditation process, you must give notice to every
approved alarm company:
(a) stating that the approval process under which
that company was approved as an approved
supplier of medical alarm services has been
replaced by an accreditation process and that
approvals under the approval process will
accordingly lapse; and
(b) stating that the company’s approval as a supplier
of medical alarm services will remain in force
until that company has had a reasonable
opportunity to apply for accreditation under the
accreditation process; and
(c) giving details of the accreditation process and
how to apply for accreditation under it; and
(d) stating the period within which that company
must apply for accreditation; and
(e) stating the date on which the company’s
approval as a supplier of medical alarm services
will lapse.

14 The date set under clause 13(e) must not be before
the expiry of the initial period set under the
accreditation process for evaluating and deciding on
accreditation applications and notifying applicants
of the chief executive’s decisions.

15 Subject to clause 16, a person who was receiving all
or part of a disability allowance in respect of the
supply of medical alarm services from an approved
alarm company immediately before that company’s
approval lapses in accordance with clause 13(e)
should not by reason only of the lapsing of that
approval cease to receive that allowance or part
during the current period of the person’s contract
with that company.

16 You must, as soon as practicable after an approved
alarm company’s approval has lapsed in accordance
with clause 13(e):
(a) review the disability allowances of persons
being supplied with medical alarm services by
that company having regard to clause 6A; and
(b) take reasonable steps to assist those persons
to obtain medical alarm services from an
accredited alarm company (whether or not from
the same company) and vary the rate of their
disability allowances accordingly.

17 Before the expiry of the initial period set under
the accreditation process for evaluating and
deciding on accreditation applications and notifying
applicants of the chief executive’s decisions, the
references in clauses 5A(a) and 6A to an accredited
alarm company must be read as references to an
approved alarm company.”

Dated at Wellington this 29th day of September 2011.

HON PAULA BENNETT, Minister for Social Development
and Employment.

Explanatory Note

This note is not part of the instrument but is intended to
indicate its general effect.

This instrument, which takes effect on the day after its
publication in the New Zealand Gazette, amends the
Ministerial Direction—Disability Allowance under the Social
Security Act 1964 by revoking the provisions relating to
approval of suppliers of medical alarm services and
replacing them with new provisions relating to accreditation
of suppliers on a competitive basis. Approvals under the
former process will lapse after approved suppliers have had
a reasonable opportunity to apply for accreditation under
the new process.

The lapse of an approval will not affect the disability
allowances of people who receive services from the formerly
approved supplier during the current terms of their
contracts with those suppliers, but the chief executive is
directed to review those allowances having regard to new
clause 6A and assist the person concerned to obtain medical
alarm services from an accredited supplier and to vary the
rate of the disability allowance accordingly.

In accordance with new clause 6A of the direction, disability
allowances for supply of medical alarm services from
suppliers that are not accredited alarm companies will only
be granted in exceptional circumstances.

Annotation of Notes

1 New Zealand Gazette, 1 April 1999, No. 41, page 983
2 3 4 All New Zealand Gazette, 5 July 2001, No. 69, page 1630

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Transport

Land Transport Act 1998

Authorised Access to Certain Names and Addresses Held on the Motor Vehicle Register

Pursuant to section 241 of the Land Transport Act 1998 (“the Act”), I authorise the following person, for the purpose and the
term, and on the conditions stated below, to have access to the names and addresses of persons:

• who are currently registered in respect of a motor vehicle(s); and
• who have not instructed the Registrar of Motor Vehicles to withhold their details.