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This Cabinet material outlines the background, assessment, and consultation undertaken to revoke the requirements for Early Childhood Education providers and primary schools to maintain their own registers of enrolled children's immunisation status, based on the fact that more accurate information is readily available through the Aotearoa Immunisation Register.

Titles of Cabinet paper:

  • Health (Immunisation) Regulations Revocation Order 2025

Titles of minutes:

  • Report of the Cabinet Legislation Committee: Period Ending 5 December 2025 (CAB-25-MIN-0446)
  • Minute of Decision: Health (Immunisation) Regulations Revocation Order 2025 (LEG-25-MIN-0245)

Additional Documents

  • Briefing: Cabinet Legislation Committee Paper - Revocation of the Health (Immunisation) Regulations 1995 (H2025075924)
  • Order in Council: Health (Immunisation) Regulations Revocation Order 2025

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