Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022

Introduction

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"Helping All New Zealanders Have Healthy Futures"

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You want to know what this Act is for. This Act aims to help all New Zealanders be healthy. It wants to make sure everyone has the same chance to be healthy. You might wonder how it plans to do this. It wants to protect and improve people's health. It also wants to make sure everyone is treated fairly. This Act has a big goal - to help all New Zealanders have healthy futures, which is called pae ora. It especially wants to help Māori have better health outcomes. It wants to get rid of health differences between different groups of people.

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Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022

Reprint as at:
2026-01-15
Assent:
2022-06-14
Commencement:
see section 2

The Parliamentary Counsel Office has made editorial and format changes to this version using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

Note 4 at the end of this version provides a list of the amendments included in it.

This Act is administered by the Ministry of Health.