New Zealand Legislation: Acts

3 Purpose

• The purpose of this Act is to—

  • (a) promote the safe provision of health and disability services to the public; and

  • (b) enable the establishment of consistent and reasonable standards for providing health and disability services to the public safely; and

  • (c) encourage providers of health and disability services to take responsibility for providing those services to the public safely; and

  • (d) encourage providers of health and disability services to the public to improve continuously the quality of those services.