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Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003

Administration - Standards, rules, and regulations

148: Director-General may promulgate guidelines and standards

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"The boss of health can create rules to help people follow the Intellectual Disability Act."

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The Director-General of Health can make guidelines and standards for the Intellectual Disability Act. You will see guidelines for things like how care recipients are treated and what care they get. The Director-General must make sure there are guidelines about putting care recipients in seclusion and giving them medication. The Director-General's guidelines and standards are a type of law called secondary legislation, which has its own rules for publication, as explained in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. These guidelines and standards help people understand how to follow the Intellectual Disability Act.

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Part 11Administration
Standards, rules, and regulations

148Director-General may promulgate guidelines and standards

  1. The Director-General of Health may issue—

  2. guidelines for the purposes of this Act; and
    1. standards of care and treatment of care recipients.

      1. The Director-General must ensure that guidelines are issued, under subsection (1), relating to—

      2. the placing of care recipients in seclusion; and
        1. the prescribing of medication for care recipients.

          1. Guidelines and standards under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

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          • Section 148(3): replaced, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).