Health and Disability Commissioner (Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers' Rights) Amendment Regulations 2004

3 Schedule amended
  • (1) Right 7 set out in clause 2 of the Schedule of the principal regulations is amended by revoking subclause (10), and substituting the following subclause:

    • (10) No body part or bodily substance removed or obtained in the course of a health care procedure may be stored, preserved, or used otherwise than—

      • (a) with the informed consent of the consumer; or

      • (b) for the purposes of research that has received the approval of an ethics committee; or

      • (c) for the purposes of 1 or more of the following activities, being activities that are each undertaken to assure or improve the quality of services:—

        • (i) a professionally recognised quality assurance programme:

        • (ii) an external audit of services:

        • (iii) an external evaluation of services.

    (2) Clause 4 of the Schedule of the principal regulations is amended by inserting, after the definition of duties, the following definition:

    ethics committee means an ethics committee—

    • (a) established by, or appointed under, an enactment; or

    • (b) approved by the Director-General of Health.