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Health and Disability Commissioner Act 1994

Health and Disability Services Consumer Advocacy Service

28: Guidelines for operation of advocacy services

You could also call this:

"Rules for people who help others with health and disability services"

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The Commissioner can make guidelines for advocacy services. You can think of guidelines like rules to follow. The Commissioner might make these guidelines on their own, or they might be told to do so by the Minister.

The guidelines will include information on how advocates should do their job, like what steps to take when helping people. The Commissioner can change or get rid of these guidelines, but only if the Minister agrees.

The guidelines and any changes to them are considered secondary legislation, which you can learn more about in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. This means they have to be published in a certain way.

The Commissioner needs the Minister's approval before making any guidelines or changing them. This ensures that everyone is on the same page when it comes to advocacy services.

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Part 3Health and Disability Services Consumer Advocacy Service

28Guidelines for operation of advocacy services

  1. The Commissioner may from time to time, and shall if directed to do so by the Minister, issue guidelines relating to the operation of advocacy services.

  2. Without limiting subsection (1), any guidelines issued pursuant to subsection (1) shall include provisions relating to the procedures to be followed by advocates in carrying out their functions, including any special procedures to be followed when advocates are dealing with any particular persons or classes of persons.

  3. The Commissioner may from time to time, and shall if directed to do so by the Minister, issue an amendment or revocation of any guidelines issued pursuant to this section.

  4. The Commissioner may not issue any guidelines, or any amendment to or revocation of those guidelines, under this section unless the Minister has approved the proposed guidelines or the proposed amendment or revocation.

  5. The following are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements):

  6. the guidelines:
    1. an amendment to or revocation of those guidelines.

      1. Repealed

      2. Repealed
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      Notes
      • Section 28(4): replaced, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
      • Section 28(5): replaced, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
      • Section 28(6): repealed, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
      • Section 28(7): repealed, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).