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From: Erika Whittome <[FYI request #31478 email]>; 
Received: Thu Jul 03 2025 08:29:44 GMT+1200 (New Zealand Standard Time)
To: OIA Requests <[email address]>; OIA <[email address]>; 
Subject: Official Information request - Exemptions process - under clause
7A of the vaccinations Order prior to 7 Nov 2021

Dear Ministry of Health,

I refer to this webpage
[4]https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/dise...
from 22 October 2021:
[5]https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlo...

The MoH page says :
"How an exemption is granted
Workers may be exempt from the requirement to be vaccinated if, after
examination:

a suitably qualified health practitioner considers that the vaccination is
clinically contradicted for the person, and
a suitably qualified health practitioner provides written confirmation of
that assessment.

When you can apply for an exemption
The exemption process comes into force on 15 November 2021."

Would you kindly share all the information on this process as it was in
October 2021? According to this web page, the MoH says the exemptions
process comes into force on 15 November. I am requesting all the
information on this process for exemptions at this time in 2021 especially
before 7 November 2021, and what processes were starting 15 November 2021.

Yours faithfully,

Erika Whittome

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