R4.1 Health requirements

Immigration Regulations 1999 regs 4(1)(f) and 10(1)(h)

1. All persons included in residence applications must meet the health requirements as set out in the Administration chapter (see A4) or qualify for a medical waiver.
2. If any person included in the application fails to meet the necessary health requirements and does not qualify for a medical waiver, the application may be declined.

R4.1.1 Evidence of health

1. Applications for residence must include, at the time the application is lodged, fully completed Medical and Chest X-Ray Certificate NZIS 1007 for every person included in the application.

   Note: Pregnant women and children under 11 years of age are not required to have an X-ray examination.

2. All Medical and Chest X-Ray Certificates must be less than 3 months old at the date the application for residence is made.
3. Visa and immigration officers may require a further Medical and Chest X-Ray Certificate as a basis for determining an application for residence, if there is good reason to do so.
4. The Medical and Chest X-Ray Certificate must be:
   1. completed by a registered medical practitioner and a radiologist, or an Immigration New Zealand-appointed panel doctor/radiologist if required (see A4.30.5); and
   2. completed in English if possible.
5. If it is not possible to complete the Medical and Chest X-Ray Certificate in English, it must be submitted with a certified translation, as must any accompanying laboratory or specialist reports.
6. The Medical and Chest X-Ray Certificate must be less than three months old at the time of lodging an application unless an appropriately delegated visa or immigration officer, having regard to any instructions on the matter, has waived that lodgement requirement, in which case a Medical and Chest X-Ray Certificate more than three months old may be accepted and used for determination purposes.

R4.1.5 Assessment

The Medical and Chest X-Ray Certificate and associated reports are assessed in terms of health requirements policy set out at A4.

Effective 28/11/2005