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Health and Disability Commissioner Act 1994

7: Strategies and objectives to be taken into account

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"Consider the government's health plans and goals when making decisions"

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When you are making decisions or taking action under the Health and Disability Commissioner Act 1994, you must consider the Government Policy Statement on Health. You must also think about any health strategy issued under the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022, as long as it applies to the situation. You need to consider the objectives of Health New Zealand, which are set out in section 13 of the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022. This means you have to think about what the government and Health New Zealand want to achieve when you are making decisions or taking action under this Act.

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7Strategies and objectives to be taken into account

  1. In exercising or performing any power or function under this Act, every person must—

  2. take into account the Government Policy Statement on Health, and any health strategy issued under the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022, so far as those strategies are applicable to the circumstances of the particular case; and
    1. take into account the objectives of Health New Zealand set out in section 13 of the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022.

      Notes
      • Section 7: substituted, on , by section 111(1) of the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000 (2000 No 91).
      • Section 7(a): replaced, on , by section 104 of the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022 (2022 No 30).
      • Section 7(b): replaced, on , by section 104 of the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022 (2022 No 30).
      • Section 7(b): amended, on , by section 43 of the Pae Ora (Disestablishment of Māori Health Authority) Amendment Act 2024 (2024 No 5).