New Zealand Legislation: Acts

7 Strategies and objectives to be taken into account

• In exercising or performing any power or function under this Act, every person must—

  • (a) take into account the New Zealand health strategy and the New Zealand disability strategy issued under section 8 of the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000, so far as those strategies are applicable to the circumstances of the particular case; and

  • (b) take into account the objectives for district health boards set out in section 22(1) of the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000, so far as those objectives are applicable in the circumstances of the particular case.

  Section 7 was substituted, as from 1 January 2001, by section 111(1) New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000 (2000 No 91).