New Zealand Legislation: Acts

5 Health or disability services defined

• (1) In this Act, health or disability services—

  • (a) means services of any of the following kinds:

    • (i) chiropractic services, dental services, fertility services, geriatric services, gynaecological services, habilitation services, maternity services, medical services, mental health services, obstetric services, osteopathy services, rehabilitation services, physiotherapy services, and surgical services:

    • (ii) collecting, storing, or transporting human tissue or human bodily substances for the purposes of, or in connection with, the provision or prospective provision of health or disability services:

    • (iii) services, provided to people with disabilities or people who are frail (whether because of their age or for some other reason), for their care or support or to promote their independence; and

  • (b) includes services intended to prevent, or lessen the prevalence or severity of, illness or injury; and

  • (c) includes any services within the meaning of the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000; and

  • (d) includes services intended to enable the detection, the diagnosis, the determination of the nature or extent or prognosis, or the monitoring, of any illness, injury, or other condition, the treatment of which (or the treatment of the effects of which) is or would be providing health or disability services of any kind, for example—

    • (i) biochemical, chemical, cytogenetic, cytological, haematological, histopathological, immunological, microbiological, sensory, or serological analysis, examination, scanning, screening, or testing:

    • (ii) examining, scanning, screening, or testing people using electro-magnetic or ionising radiation, magnetism, or sound; and

  • (e) includes administering the provision of health or disability services.

  (2) Subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of paragraph (d) of subsection (1) do not limit the generality of that paragraph or of paragraph (a) of that subsection.

  Subsection (1)(c) was amended, as from 17 May 2005, by section 3 Health and Disability Services (Safety) Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 56) by omitting the word “Services”.