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Health and Disability Commissioner Act 1994

Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights

21: Review of Code

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"The Commissioner regularly checks the rules that keep you safe when getting health services to see if they need updating."

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The Commissioner checks the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers' Rights regularly. You can think of the Code as a set of rules that helps keep you safe when you are getting health or disability services. The Commissioner makes sure the Code is up to date and working well, and they do this at least every three years.

The Commissioner can also check the Code at any time if they think it is necessary, or if the Minister asks them to. When the Commissioner checks the Code, they think about whether any changes should be made to it.

If the Commissioner suggests changes to the Code, the Minister gets a copy of these suggestions and shares them with the House of Representatives within 12 sitting days. The Commissioner follows a process similar to what they do when they are creating a new draft Code, which is explained in section 19(1) and section 22.

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Part 2Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights

21Review of Code

  1. The Commissioner shall from time to time, as often as is necessary to ensure that a complete review of the Code is carried out at intervals of not more than 3 years, review the Code and make recommendations to the Minister on what changes (if any) the Commissioner considers should be made to the Code.

  2. The Commissioner—

  3. shall whenever the Minister so requests; and
    1. may at any time, on the Commissioner’s own initiative,—
        1. review the Code, or any part of the Code, and make recommendations to the Minister on what changes (if any) the Commissioner considers should be made to the Code.

      1. Section 22 shall apply, with all necessary modifications, in relation to any recommendations made by the Commissioner under this section as if those recommendations were a draft Code to which section 19(1) applies.

      2. Within 12 sitting days after receiving any recommendations from the Commissioner in accordance with subsection (1) or, as the case may be, subsection (2), the Minister shall lay a copy of those recommendations before the House of Representatives.