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Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003

Reviews of condition and status of care recipients - Condition of every care recipient to be reviewed

81: Co-ordinator to send copy of certificate to certain persons

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"Sending a copy of a care certificate to the person and their important supporters"

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When you get a certificate about someone who is getting care, you need to send a copy to certain people. You must send a copy to the person getting care, and to anyone who is their welfare guardian. You also need to send a copy to the person's parents or guardians if they are a child or young person, and to their lawyer and principal caregiver, as well as the responsible district inspector, as stated in section 80.

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Part 6Reviews of condition and status of care recipients
Condition of every care recipient to be reviewed

81Co-ordinator to send copy of certificate to certain persons

  1. On receipt, under section 80, of a certificate on a care recipient, the co-ordinator of the care recipient must give or send a copy of the certificate to the following persons:

  2. the care recipient:
    1. any welfare guardian of the care recipient:
      1. if the care recipient is a child or young person, each parent or guardian of the child or young person:
        1. any lawyer of the care recipient:
          1. the care recipient's principal caregiver:
            1. the responsible district inspector.