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Substance Addiction (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 2017

Subordinate instruments and miscellaneous provisions - Miscellaneous provisions

120: Ministry must review Act

You could also call this:

"The government checks if the Substance Addiction Act is working well and writes a report about it."

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The Ministry of Health has to check how well the Substance Addiction Act is working. You will know this is happening because it must be done within six months of a special date. This special date is three years after the part of the Act that says the Ministry must do the review comes into force.

The Ministry of Health must look at how the Act has been working since it started and write a report about it for the Minister. The Minister is in charge of the Ministry of Health.

The Minister has to give a copy of the report to the House of Representatives as soon as they can after they get the report from the Ministry of Health.

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Part 3Subordinate instruments and miscellaneous provisions
Miscellaneous provisions

120Ministry must review Act

  1. The Ministry of Health must, within the period of 6 months beginning on the review date,—

  2. conduct a review of the operation and effectiveness of this Act since its commencement; and
    1. prepare a report on the review for the Minister.

      1. The Minister must present a copy of the report to the House of Representatives as soon as practicable after receiving the report.

      2. In this section, review date means the date that is the third anniversary of the date on which this section comes into force.