This proposal has been prepared in accordance with section 5 of the Health Sector (Transfers) Act 1993 for the purpose of transferring assets and liabilities of the Crown (acting through the Ministry of Health) to DHBs. The assets and liabilities being transferred are those that the Crown has under certain specified agreements with providers of health services. Those specified agreements are service agreements under which disability support services are provided to—

In this proposal, unless the context otherwise requires,—

The transferor is the Crown (acting through the Ministry of Health).

The relevant transferee, in relation to any specified agreement, is the DHB whose name appears above the table that, in the Appendix to this proposal, refers to a document that evidences or refers to the agreement.

The assets and liabilities to be transferred are the rights, liabilities, and obligations of the transferor under every specified agreement.

However, the liabilities referred to in subclause (1) do not include the transferor’s liabilities to pay for services provided before 1 October 2003.

The value attributed to the assets to be transferred is nil as at 30 September 2003.

The value attributed to the liabilities to be transferred is nil as at 30 September 2003.

The assets referred to in clause 5 of this proposal are transferred without the transferor receiving any asset in return.

Each transferee is to incur the liabilities referred to in clause 5 of this proposal for consideration only of receiving the assets referred to in that clause.

The transfer date is 1 October 2003.

This proposal is dated 18 August 2003 and is signed by the transferring Ministers, Michael John Cullen, Minister of Finance, and Annette Faye King, Minister of Health.