Chinese Medicine Council (Fees) Notice 2025
Pursuant to sections 130–133 of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (“HPCA Act”), the following notice is given.
(1) This notice may be cited as the Chinese Medicine Council (Fees) Notice 2025 and shall come into force on 16 January 2025.
(2) This notice has the status of a disallowable instrument for the purposes of the Legislation Act 2019.
(3) This notice replaces the Chinese Medicine Council (Fees) Notice December 2024 published in the New Zealand Gazette, 24 January 2024, Notice No. 2024-sl273.
The Chinese Medicine Council sets the following fees specified in the attached Schedule.
All fees charged by the Council are non-refundable and are payable in $NZD.
All fees specified in the Schedule are inclusive of goods and services tax (GST) of 15%.
| Registration | $ |
| Initial registration fee (NZ-qualified, excl. new graduates) | 300 |
| Initial registration fee (NZ-qualified, new graduates) | 200 |
| Initial registration fee (TTMRA pathway) | 300 |
| Registration, application, and processing fee for overseas-qualified applicants (Express pathway) | 750 |
| Registration, application, and processing fee for overseas-qualified applicants (General pathway) | 1,500 |
| Registration, application, and processing fee for visiting teacher/educator | 550 |
| Registration, application, and processing fee for an additional general scope of practice or a change to a current general scope of practice1 | 115 |
| Registration, application, and processing fee for each Specialist scope of practice or change to a Specialist scope of practice | 300 |
| Annual Practising Certificate (APC) Fees | |
| Application for an APC (between 1 October 2024 and 31 March 2025) incl. a disciplinary levy of $94 | 633.00 |
| Application for an APC (between 1 April 2025 and 30 September 2025) incl. a disciplinary levy of $75 | 875.00 |
| Application for an APC (between 1 October 2025 and 31 March 2026) incl. a disciplinary levy of $50 | 583.50 |
| Annual practising certificate late fee (for applications to renew an APC received after 31 March) | 100.00 |
| Supply of Documents | |
| Application for Certificate of Registration/re-issue of Certificate of Registration | 50.00 |
| Application for Letter of Good Standing | 100.00 |
| Application for a Certificate of Good Standing | 50.00 |
| Application for Copy of the Register | 50.00 |
| Application for copies of documents held on file | 100.00 |
| Any Other Matter | |
| Non-practising/register maintenance fee | 100.00 |
| Application for Restoration to the Register | 100.00 |
| Accreditation and monitoring of educational institutions and degrees, courses of studies, or programmes that are prescribed for scopes of practice2 | Cost recovery |
On 23 October 2024, the Council consulted publicly on APC fees proposed for 2025/26 with practitioners, practitioner representative bodies, members of the public, and other relevant stakeholders.
Six submissions were received by the consultation deadline of 2 December 2024, from five individual practitioners and one practitioner representative body. Feedback from submitters was mixed; some indicating the proposed reduced fees were reasonable and they hoped that they might continue to reduce over time, while others indicated that the proposed fees should be further reduced and align with the fees paid by other professions who earn similar incomes to Chinese medicine practitioners.
The Council considered submissions and passed a formal motion to approve the APC fees as proposed in the consultation document. A full summary of the feedback received, Council’s response to it, and the decision reached is available on the Council’s website.
Dated at Wellington this 5th day of December 2024.
LINDSEY PINE, Registrar, Chinese Medicine Council.
1. Registration fee for an additional general scope of practice or a change to a current general scope of practice: This fee applies to current registrants who are applying to add or make changes to their approved general scopes of practice after the point of initial registration approval.
2. Accreditation and monitoring of educational institutions and degrees, courses of studies, or programmes that are prescribed for scopes of practice: The direct professional fees, travel, accommodation, and other costs for site evaluation team members together with Council administration expenses for teleconference meetings, printing, and postage etc., will be charged to the educational institution being accredited/monitored, based on actual costs incurred. The Council’s secretariat administrative overheads incurred throughout the accreditation process will also be charged to the educational institution. The invoice will be generated at the end of the accreditation review process, or annually for monitoring if monitoring spans more than one financial year, regardless of the outcome of the accreditation/monitoring. An indicative cost for an accreditation review/ongoing monitoring will be provided to the educational institution in advance of any review/monitoring taking place.