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Part 2Key roles and health documents
Key health documents: Health strategies

49Health entities must have regard to health strategies

  1. A health entity must have regard to all health strategies—

  2. when exercising its powers or performing its functions or duties; and
    1. to the extent that each health strategy is relevant to those powers, functions, or duties.