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Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003

Status and rights of care recipients - General status and specific rights - Specific rights of care recipients

48: Care recipients are consumers under Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers' Rights

You could also call this:

"People getting care have the same rights as other consumers under the law."

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If you are a care recipient, you are also a consumer under the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers' Rights. This means you have all the rights that are in the Code of Rights. You get these rights because you are a disability services consumer, and the law says so.

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Part 5Status and rights of care recipients
General status and specific rights: Specific rights of care recipients

48Care recipients are consumers under Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers' Rights

  1. Every care recipient is a disability services consumer for the purposes of the Code of Rights, and accordingly has all the rights under that Code.