✨ Health Act Definitions
8 JUNE 2011
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(a) the person has, over a period of 1 to 14 days, developed a significant increase in the person’s hearing threshold level of at least 30 dB HL on average in 1 ear or both ears; and
(b) this has resulted in the average of the person’s 3 worst hearing threshold levels, which have been measured at audiometric frequencies of 500, 1000, 2000, and 4000 Hz, being equal to or greater than 70 dB HL in the better ear
uncontrollable event means an event that is beyond the reasonable control of a person but does not include—
(a) any risk or event that the person could have prevented or overcome by taking reasonable care including having in place a reasonable risk management process; or
(b) lack of funds for any reason (other than where the Ministry has failed to make due payment)
UNHSEIP Protocols means the Universal Newborn Hearing Screening and Early Intervention Programme; National Policy and Quality Standards in Appendix F of the Diagnostic and Amplification Protocols issued by the Ministry of Health (as amended from time to time)
working day means a day of the week other than—
(a) a Saturday, a Sunday, Waitangi Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day, the Sovereign’s Birthday, and Labour Day; and
(b) the day observed in the appropriate area as the anniversary of the province of which the area forms a part; and
(c) a day in the period commencing with 25 December in a year and ending with 2 January in the following year; and
(d) if 1 January falls on a Friday, the following Monday; and
(e) if 1 January falls on a Saturday or a Sunday, the following Monday and Tuesday.
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Application of clauses 3 to 7
Clauses 3 to 7 apply to this notice unless the context requires otherwise.
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Meanings of terms and expressions defined in Act
Any term or expression that is defined in the Act and used, but not defined, in this notice, has the same meaning as in the Act.
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Parts of speech and grammatical forms
Grammatical forms of a word that is defined in this notice have corresponding meanings in this notice.
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Numbers
Words in the singular include the plural and words in the plural include the singular.
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