[5] The area covered by the Auckland District Health Board was defined in Schedule 1 of the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000 and based on territorial authority and ward boundaries as constituted on 1 January 2001.

[7] The DHB controlled and ran many facilities within the Auckland Region including, but not limited to:[8] The initial board was fully appointed.

The minister also appoints the chairperson and deputy-chair from the pool of eleven board members.

[10] Richard Waddel was the initial chairperson, appointed by Health Minister Annette King.

[12] During the 2001–2004 local government term, Brown was forced to resign from Tairāwhiti DHB, where he had been elected, due to an administrative error by the Ministry of Health.

[13] Brown was reappointed by King for another term in October 2004,[14] but the new Health Minister, David Cunliffe, chose a new chair for Auckland from December 2007 when he appointed Patrick Snedden.

[18] Levy had first been appointed to the Waitemata DHB as a member in June 2009 was to have reached the statutory limit of nine years in June 2018 and as it was his understanding that there should be one chairperson for all three DHBs in the Auckland region, he intended to resign his roles at that point.

However, he had been appointed onto a Ministerial Advisory Group by Health Minister David Clark and to avoid the perception of a conflict of interest, he foreshadowed his resignation in December 2017 with effect in January 2018.