NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 134

8 NOVEMBER 2012

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General Section

Animal Health Board

Biosecurity (Bovine Tuberculosis-Otago Land Levy) Order 1998

Levy on Rural Land in the Otago Region

Pursuant to the Biosecurity (Bovine Tuberculosis-Otago Land Levy) Order 1998 made under the Biosecurity Act 1993, a levy is payable to the Animal Health Board Incorporated by the occupiers of all rural landholdings four hectares or more in area in the Otago region.

The purpose of the levy is to partially fund TB vector control operations in Otago under the National Bovine Tuberculosis Pest Management Strategy.

For the 2012/13 financial year, the single rate of levy payable is 0.01700% ($17.00) per $100,000.00 of the property land value recorded in the district valuation roll on 1 July 2012 (GST exclusive).

For the purpose of calculating the levy payable, no property shall be valued at more than $5,000.00 per hectare.

Where the levy payable is less than $10.00 excluding GST for the property, the occupier is exempt from payment of the levy and will not receive an invoice.

Land occupiers will be invoiced by the Animal Health Board for levies payable on or after 7 February 2013.

The due date for payment of levies is 31 March 2013.

JOHN DALZIELL, Chairman, Animal Health Board.

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Medical Council of New Zealand

Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003

Notice of New Scope of Practice and Qualification Prescribed by the Medical Council of New Zealand

Pursuant to section 11 of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003, the following notice is given.

1. This notice amends the Medical Council of New Zealand’s notice “Scopes of Practice and Prescribed Qualifications for the Practice of Medicine in New Zealand”, published in the Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette, 3 February 2012, No. 12, page 283, by inserting, in the appendix on page 293, after the entry relating to Paediatrics, the following entry (relating to a new scope of practice and prescribed qualification):

"Pain Medicine

The biopsychosocial assessment and management of persons with complex pain, especially when an underlying condition is not directly treatable. The scope of pain medicine supplements that of other medical disciplines, and utilises interdisciplinary skills to promote improved quality-of-life through improved physical, psychological and social function.

Fellowship of the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (FFPMANZCA)"

2. This notice comes into effect on 3 December 2012.

Explanatory Note

On 17 October 2012, the Medical Council of New Zealand approved a new vocational scope of practice of Pain Medicine and associated prescribed qualification.

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