Medical Practitioners Amendment Act 1977

Public Act		1977 No 118
Date of assent		16 December 1977

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Duty of medical practitioners in respect of family planning
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Medical Practitioners Act 1968

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Medical Practitioners Amendment Act 1977, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Medical Practitioners Act 1968 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Duty of medical practitioners in respect of family planning

The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section 43, the following section:

“43a

“(1)

It is the duty of every registered medical practitioner who is requested by a patient to provide any advice or other service with respect to contraception, sterilisation, or other family planning matters, and who objects on grounds of conscience to providing that service, to inform the patient that he may obtain that service from another registered medical practitioner or a family planning clinic.

“(2)

Without limiting section 43 of this Act, every medical practitioner who fails to comply with subsection (1) of this section is guilty of professional misconduct, and shall be dealt with by the Disciplinary Committee in accordance with subsection (2) of that section.”

This Act is administered in the Department of Health.

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