MoE Guidance on Required Testing Order legislation?
Erika Whittome made this Official Information request to Ministry of Education
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From: Erika Whittome
Dear Ministry of Education,
The COVID-19 Public Health Response (Required Testing) Order 2020 covered education workers and there was a clause 12D about 'Weekly testing of affected persons not fully vaccinated'
https://www.legislation.govt.nz/secondar...
Would you please share the bulletins, guidance and advice from 1 Oct 2021 until 31 March 2022 on the topic of this Required Testing Order legislation for unvaccinated education workers?
Yours faithfully,
Erika Whittome
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From: Erika Whittome
Dear Enquiries National,
You have shared various documents, but none of them contain anything about clause 12D 'Weekly testing of affected persons not fully vaccinated'
Clause 12D in the legislation said:
Before 1 January 2022, any other affected person may continue to physically attend or perform work or provide a service onsite at an affected education service, subject to the condition that they provide to the relevant PCBU—
(a)
a negative result from a test for COVID-19 at least once every 7 days until they have been vaccinated; or
(b)
proof of an exemption under clause 8(1) from the requirement to undergo testing.
Please supply the requested information/bulletins/ guidance/advice on clause 12D, or let me know if it does not exist.
Yours sincerely,
Erika Whittome
From: Enquiries National
Ministry of Education
[IN-CONFIDENCE - RELEASE EXTERNAL]
Kia ora Erika
Thank you for the information request below. The Ministry will consider and respond to your request in accordance with the Official Information Act 1982 the Act).
Under section 15(1) of the Act, we are required to make and inform you of our decision on your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case not later than 20 working days after the day on which your request is received. You can therefore expect to receive our decision on your request on or before 13 August 2026. If more than 20 working days are needed due to the potential workload and/or consultations involved in answering your request, we will notify you accordingly.
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