Pursuant to section 24(7)(b) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, I, John Crawshaw, acting under delegated authority from the Minister of Health, specify the Lakes Opioid Treatment Service as a service that may provide treatment with controlled drugs for people who are dependent on controlled drugs, at the following places:

Te Ngako Community Mental Health Services

1144 Pukaki Street

Rotorua 3010; and

Ruia Te Hua Oranga

3 Gascoigne Street

Taupo 3330.

And, pursuant to section 24(7)(a) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, acting under delegated authority from the Minister of Health, I specify

Dr Jeremy Bruce McMinn

as a medical practitioner, may:

1. prescribe, administer or supply controlled drugs for the treatment of dependence to controlled drugs as the lead clinician for Lakes Opioid Treatment Service;
2. authorise, in writing, service/clinic medical practitioners as specified under subsection (2)(b) to:
1. prescribe, administer or supply controlled drugs for the treatment of dependence;
2. authorise, in writing, general practitioners receiving clients from Lakes Opioid Treatment Service as specified under subsection (2)(d); and
3. authorise, in writing, general practitioners receiving clients from Lakes Opioid Treatment Service as specified under subsection (2)(d).

Conditions

1. Controlled drugs may only be prescribed, administered or supplied to people who are or have been clients of Lakes Opioid Treatment Service.

2. This approval expires on 31 December 2017.

Dated at Wellington this 29th day of October 2014.

Dr JOHN CRAWSHAW, Director of Mental Health.