Essential Eligibility Criteria for Services Purchased by Regional Health Authorities 1. Pursuant to section 10 of the Essential Eligibility Criteria for receipt of services purchased by regional health authorities issued on 30 June 1994 as a Schedule to the Health and Disability Services Eligibility Direction 1994 pursuant to section 25 of the Health and Disability Services Act 1993, I Jennifer Mary Shipley, Minister of Health, hereby specify that any citizen of New Zealand (who is a citizen of the Cook Islands, Niue, or Tokelau) who is for the time being lawfully in New Zealand be eligible to receive services purchased by a regional health authority on the same basis as any citizen of New Zealand who is for the time being lawfully in New Zealand and who has at some time been ordinarily resident in New Zealand. 2. This notice shall come into force on 14 December 1995. Hon. JENNY SHIPLEY, Minister of Health.