Health and Disability Commissioner Act 1994

6: Purpose

You could also call this:

"This law helps protect your rights when you use health or disability services."

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The purpose of the Health and Disability Commissioner Act 1994 is to help you if you are a health consumer or a disability services consumer. This Act promotes and protects your rights. It helps resolve complaints about your rights in a fair, simple, and efficient way.

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6Purpose

  1. The purpose of this Act is to promote and protect the rights of health consumers and disability services consumers, and, to that end, to facilitate the fair, simple, speedy, and efficient resolution of complaints relating to infringements of those rights.