Health and Disability Services (Safety) Act 2001
Parliament of New Zealand
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Disability Legislation
New Zealand
31 December 2001
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The purpose of this Act is to—(a) promote the safe provision of health and disability services to the public; and
(b) enable the establishment of consistent and reasonable standards for providing health and disability services to the public safely; and
(c) encourage providers of health and disability services to take responsibility for providing those services to the public safely; and
(d) encourage providers of health and disability services to the public to improve continuously the quality of those services.
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