Dear Ministry of Health,
According to the legislation at the time in Nov 2021, there were exemptions available for those who were not getting vaccinated against Covid 19 under clause 9 of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Vaccinations) Order 2021 which I will copy and paste:

9 Chief executive may authorise affected persons not vaccinated to carry out
certain work
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(1) This clause—
(a) applies despite anything in clause 7 or 8; but
(b) does not apply to an affected person who belongs to a group specified in
Part 7 or 9 of the table in Schedule 2.
(2) A chief executive may authorise an affected person who has not been vaccina‐
ted to carry out certain work if the work—
(a) is unanticipated, necessary, and time-critical and cannot be carried out by a person who is vaccinated; and
(b) must be carried out to prevent the ceasing of operations.
(3) An affected person who is authorised to carry out certain work under subclause
(2) may be authorised to re-enter as many times as is necessary to complete the
work.
(4) An affected person may enter any place without approval if they need to enter
to preserve or protect a person’s life, health, or safety in an emergency.
(5) In this clause, chief executive,—
(a) in relation to a worker at a managed isolation facility or a managed quarantine facility, means the chief executive of the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment:
(b) in relation to a worker who is not a service worker and who works at an
affected port or on board an affected ship, means the Director of Maritime New Zealand:
(c) in relation to a worker who is not a service worker and who works at an affected airport or on board an affected aircraft, means the Director of Civil Aviation:
(ca) in relation to a staff member of a corrections prison, means the chief executive of the Department of Corrections:
(d) in relation to any other worker, means the chief executive of the relevant PCBU.

Kindly share:
1. How many such clause 9 CEO operational exemptions were received?
2. Please share the break down by DHB or other tax funded health organization, eg medsafe etc
3. How many were approved, total number of workers affected?
4. A breakdown by the organization for the above approvals in 3. above.

Yours faithfully,

Erika Whittome

Dear OIA Requests,

I copied and pasted from the order. That’s what’s in the order under clause 9.

Please answer the questions ie Did the various CEO receive and approve exemptions under clause 9?

Yours sincerely,

Erika Whittome