After due inquiry and in exercise of its powers under sections 42 (1) (a), 42 (2) (a), 42 (3), 42 (9) and 48A of
the Nurses Act 1977 ("the Act"), the Nursing Council
of New Zealand ("the council"), in a decision dated
24 February 2003, ordered that comprehensive nurse Todd Dennis Baker's name be removed from the Register and that he may apply for reinstatement after a period of two years.
The council also ordered that Todd Dennis Baker pay $660.00 towards the costs and expenses of and incidental
to the inquiry by the council, that a notice stating the effect of these orders be published in the New Zealand Gazette, Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand, the Nursing Review, the council's newsletter and made available to accredited members of the media, and that he return to the Registrar his registration certificate and badge issued to him under the Act.
MARION CLARK, Registrar.