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Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003

Principles and general duties

11: Principles governing exercise of powers under this Act

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"Rules to keep people with intellectual disabilities safe and treated fairly"

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When you are dealing with someone who has an intellectual disability, you must follow some important rules. You must make sure the person is safe and healthy, and that others around them are safe and healthy too. You must also protect the person's rights, which means treating them fairly and respecting their needs.

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Part 2Principles and general duties

11Principles governing exercise of powers under this Act

  1. Every court or person who exercises, or proposes to exercise, a power under this Act in respect of a care recipient must be guided by the principle that the care recipient should be treated so as to protect—

  2. the health and safety of the care recipient and of others; and
    1. the rights of the care recipient.