Health Complaints Act 2016
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158 Regulations
(1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to the following—
(a) prescribing codes of conduct for general health services that make provision for or with respect to the following matters—
(i) the safe and ethical delivery of services;
(ii) the making of false claims;
(iii) the standards of infection control;
(iv) the keeping of records;
(v) the giving of correct and accurate information to the public;
(b) prescribing offences for the purposes of Parts 7 and 8;
(c) prescribing services as health services;
(d) any other matter or thing required by this Act to be prescribed or necessary to be prescribed to give effect to this Act.
(2) The regulations may—
(a) be of general or limited application; and
(b) differ according to differences in time, place or circumstances; and
(c) confer a discretionary authority or impose a duty on a specified person or a specified class of person; and
(d) apply, adopt or incorporate, with or without modification, any matter contained in any document, code, standard, rule, specification or method formulated, issued, prescribed or published by any person—
(i) wholly or partially or as amended by the regulations; or
(ii) as formulated, issued, prescribed or published at the time the regulations are made or at any time before then; or
(iii) as formulated, issued, prescribed or published from time to time.