ACART MEETING AGENDA
Date:
Friday 12 December 2014
Committee meeting:
ACART meeting
Location:
Conference Centre, Wellington Airport
Meeting times:
8.45am - 2.30pm
Morning tea 10.00am
Lunch
1.
Welcome
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2.
12.30pm
Opening comments by Barry Smith – What I have been thinking
Apologies

Mike Legge
3.
Approval of the agenda
4.
Declarations of Interests
a) Review declarations of interests document (A14/95)
b) Declare any conflicts of interest/role regarding today’s agenda and determine
how to manage any conflicts
5.
Minutes of ACART’s meeting of 17 October 2014 (A14/96)
6.
Actions arising from the previous minutes (A14/97)
7.
Work programme: current status (A14/98)
8.
Embryo donation - presentation by Sonja Goedeke about findings of her doctoral
research on embryo donation (A14/99)
9.
Advice on informed consent – Working Group report (A14/100)
10.
Operations of HART Act
11.
a)
Report on ECART decisions (A14/101)
b)
ACART’s Terms of Reference – amendments (A14/102)
c)
Surrogacy research, Canterbury University (A14/103)
d)
Potential ACART paper(s) for conference (A14/104)
Governance
a) Acting Chair’s report (A14/105)
b) Members’ reports (A14/106)
12.
Stakeholder liaison and relationships, including correspondence
a)
ECART correspondence (A14/107)
b)
Associate Minister of Health correspondence (A14/108)
c)
Ministry of Health correspondence (A14/109)
d)
General correspondence (A14/110)
13.
Secretariat report to ACART (A14/111)
14.
Farewell to John Angus
15.
Conclusion of meeting
a)
b)
Work likely between meetings
Committee claim forms and taxi chits
Enclosures:

Claim forms and taxi chits