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Oranga Tamariki Act 1989

Purposes, principles, and duties - General duties

12: Duty of health practitioner to minimise distress to child or young person

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"Health practitioners must examine kids in a way that hurts or scares them the least."

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When you are a health practitioner, you have to examine children and young people in a way that causes them the least possible distress. You must think about how to make the examination as gentle and comfortable as possible for the child or young person. This is part of your job when you are working with children and young people under the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989.

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Part 1Purposes, principles, and duties
General duties

12Duty of health practitioner to minimise distress to child or young person

  1. Every health practitioner who carries out a medical examination of any child or young person under any provision of this Act shall carry out that examination in a way that causes the least possible distress to the child or young person.

Notes
  • Section 12 heading: amended, on , by section 5(1) of the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Amendment Act (No 2) 2016 (2016 No 75).
  • Section 12: amended, on , by section 5(2) of the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Amendment Act (No 2) 2016 (2016 No 75).