Medical Practitioners Act 1995

   45. Removal from register on Council's order---(1) If---
   (a) Any person has been registered under this Act by reason of any
         false or misleading representation or declaration, made either
         orally or in writing; or
   (b) Any person not entitled to be registered under this Act has been
         so registered; or
   (c) The Council believes on reasonable grounds that any medical
         practitioner who holds general registration (whether or not that
         person also holds vocational registration) has not resided in
         New Zealand for a period of 6 consecutive months in any period
         of 3 consecutive years since being granted general registration
         (other than a period of absence from New Zealand of not more
         than 3 years for the purpose of post-graduate study),---
 the Council---
   (d) Shall order the Registrar to remove the name of that person from
         the register and give notice of the removal to the person; and
   (e) May, if no appeal against the order has been made under this Act,
         order the Registrar to notify the fact of the removal in such
         publications as the Council may order.

   (2) Nothing in subsection (1) (c) of this section applies in respect
 of any period of absence from New Zealand before the 1st day of April
 1980.

   (3) Where subsection (1) (c) of this section applies in respect of any
 person who holds both general registration and vocational registration,
 the person's name shall be removed from the register in respect of both
 types of registration.

   (4) The removal, under subsection (1) (c) of this section, of a
 practitioner's name from the register does not affect that
 practitioner's liability for any act done or default made before the
 date of the removal.
     Cf. 1968, No. 46, ss. 27A (1), 29 (1); 1979, No. 53, s. 12