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From: AS Van Wey <[FOI #20894 email]>;
Received: Tue Oct 18 2022 02:17:46 GMT+1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time)
To: OIA Requests <[email address]>; OIA <[email address]>;
Subject: Official Information request - Health Practitioners Competence
Assurance Act 2003

Dear Ministry of Health,

I am a NZ Citizen.

According to the NZ Legislation website, the MOH is the administering
agency for the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003.

Section 7 of the HPCA Act states is titled Unqualified person must not
claim to be health practitioner, and states.

(1) A person may only use names, words, titles, initials, abbreviations,
or descriptions stating or implying that the person is a health
practitioner of a particular kind if the person is registered, and is
qualified to be registered, as a health practitioner of that kind.
(2) No person may claim to be practising a profession as a health
practitioner of a particular kind or state or do anything that is
calculated to suggest that the person practises or is willing to practise
a profession as a health practitioner of that kind unless the person—
(a) is a health practitioner of that kind; and
(b) holds a current practising certificate as a health practitioner of
that kind.
(3) No person may make an express or implied statement about another
person that the other person is prohibited by subsection (1) or subsection
(2) from making about himself or herself.
(4) Subsection (2) does not prohibit a person from stating his or her
willingness to practise a profession for the purposes of seeking
employment if the person is, or would on obtaining that employment be,
qualified to be registered as a health practitioner of that profession and
to hold a current practising certificate as a health practitioner of that
profession.
(5) Every person commits an offence punishable on conviction by a fine not
exceeding $10,000 who contravenes this section.

I request information as to who has the statutory authority and
obligation  for investigating and bring charges of the offence described
under section 7 of the act. I am not seeking legal advice, only
documentation.

Thank you.
AS Van Wey

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