NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 141 — 21 NOVEMBER 2014

the purposes of registration in New Zealand in a special purpose scope of practice and published on the Council’s website; and

2. obtain a position where appropriate supervision is available; and

3. satisfy (for each of the following special purpose scopes of practice) the additional prescribed criteria:

A. Teaching as a visiting expert

A medical practitioner must have been invited by an institution approved by the Medical Council, which has specified the nature of any patient contact.

B. Postgraduate training⁦6⁦

A medical practitioner must

1. have medical registration in his or her own country, to which he or she will return on completion of the training; and

2. either:

• be sponsored by or on behalf of a country or organisation to which the medical practitioner returns after the proposed period of training⁦7⁦; or

• have a formal postgraduate qualification accepted by the Council as indicating competence in the branch within which the medical practitioner will work in New Zealand; or

• be enrolled in a formal training programme in his or her own country; or

• have worked for at least 12 months in an institution with which a New Zealand hospital or medical school has an exchange programme; and

3. provide evidence that they are entering a formal, recognised scholarship or fellowship programme, with a structured supervision plan⁦8⁦; and

4. have been registered and practising in their home/sponsor country for a minimum of one year immediately prior to their application (excluding Pacific island graduates, if they have been training in a different Pacific island health system at the time of their application only because recognised medical training programmes are not available in their home/sponsor country).

C. Research

A medical practitioner must be participating in a research project, for up to two years only, which has the approval of a formally-constituted ethics committee in New Zealand.

D. Locum tenens

A medical practitioner must:

1. have a postgraduate qualification approved by the Council and published on the Council’s website in the area of medicine in which the medical practitioner wishes to work. (See the Council’s website for a list of approved qualifications.);

2. have been in active clinical practice (for at least 20 hours per week) relevant to the vocational scope that the medical practitioner will be working in, for at least 22 out of the 36 months prior to application (in other words, a minimum of 1,760 hours worked, counting a maximum of 40 hours per week and excluding on-call and overtime hours);

3. have had, in the 12 months preceding the application for registration, at least six months’ practice under the jurisdiction of another medical regulatory authority, and provide evidence of satisfactory participation in any recertification programmes required by that authority during that period of practice or, where no recertification requirements have been set by that authority, provide separate evidence of ongoing professional development during that period of practice.

E. Emergency or other unpredictable, short-term situation

A medical practitioner must have qualifications appropriate to the requirements of the emergency or other unpredictable situation, as determined by the Council.

F. Pandemic or disaster