Health and Disability Services (Safety) Standards Notice 2008

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  • Health and Disability Services (Safety) Standards Notice 2008: revoked, on 28 February 2022, by clause 4(2)(a) of the Health and Disability Services (Safety) Standards Notice 2021 (LI 2021/164).

Version as at 28 February 2022

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Health and Disability Services (Safety) Standards Notice 2008

(SR 2008/364)

Health and Disability Services (Safety) Standards Notice 2008: revoked, on 28 February 2022, by clause 4(2)(a) of the Health and Disability Services (Safety) Standards Notice 2021 (LI 2021/164).

Note

The Parliamentary Counsel Office has made editorial and format changes to this version using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

Note 4 at the end of this version provides a list of the amendments included in it.

This notice is administered by the Ministry of Health.

Pursuant to sections 13 and 14(2) of the Health and Disability Services (Safety) Act 2001, the Minister of Health gives the following notice.

Notice

1 Title

This notice is the Health and Disability Services (Safety) Standards Notice 2008.

2 Commencement

This notice comes into force on 1 June 2009.

3 Standards for providing hospital care, residential disability care, and rest home care approved

This notice approves for providing hospital care, residential disability care, and rest home care Health and Disability Services Standards NZS 8134:2008, comprising—

(a)

Health and Disability Services (General) Standard, NZS 8134.0:2008:

(b)

Health and Disability Services (Core) Standards, NZS 8134.1:2008:

(c)

Health and Disability Services (Restraint Minimisation and Safe Practice) Standards, NZS 8134.2:2008:

(d)

Health and Disability Services (Infection Prevention and Control) Standards, NZS 8134.3:2008.

4 Revocations

(1)

The approval of the following standards under section 13 of the Health and Disability Services (Safety) Act 2001 is revoked:

(a)

Infection Control, NZS 8142:2000:

(b)

Restraint Minimization and Safe Practice, NZS 8141:2001:

(c)

Health and Disability Sector Standards, NZS 8134:2001

(d)

National Mental Health Sector Standard, NZS 8143:2001.

(2)

The Health and Disability Services (Safety) Hospital Care, Residential Disability Care, and Rest Home Care Standards Notice 2002 (SR 2002/24) is revoked.

Dated at Wellington this 26th day of September 2008.

David Cunliffe,
Minister of Health.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the notice, but is intended to indicate its general effect.

This notice, which comes into force on 1 June 2009, approves new standards for providing hospital care, residential disability care, and rest home care.

The notice revokes—

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2019.

Date of notification in Gazette: 2 October 2008.

Notes
1 General

This is a consolidation of the Health and Disability Services (Safety) Standards Notice 2008 that incorporates the amendments made to the legislation so that it shows the law as at its stated date.

2 Legal status

A consolidation is taken to correctly state, as at its stated date, the law enacted or made by the legislation consolidated and by the amendments. This presumption applies unless the contrary is shown.

Section 78 of the Legislation Act 2019 provides that this consolidation, published as an electronic version, is an official version. A printed version of legislation that is produced directly from this official electronic version is also an official version.

3 Editorial and format changes

The Parliamentary Counsel Office makes editorial and format changes to consolidations using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. See also PCO editorial conventions for consolidations.

4 Amendments incorporated in this consolidation

Health and Disability Services (Safety) Standards Notice 2021 (LI 2021/164): clause 4(2)(a)