Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003

7: Miscellaneous provisions, consequential amendments and repeals, and transitional provisions

174 Duty of health practitioners in respect of reproductive health services




    174 Duty of health practitioners in respect of reproductive health services

  (1)  This section applies whenever---

      (a)  a person requests a health practitioner to provide a service
(including, without limitation, advice) with respect to contraception,
sterilisation, or
other reproductive health services; and

      (b)  the health practitioner objects on the ground of conscience to
providing the service.

  (2)  When this section applies, the health practitioner must inform the
person who requests the service that he or she can obtain the service from
another
health practitioner or from a family planning clinic.
Compare: 1995 No 95 s 11

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