New Zealand
Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003
174. Duty of health practitioners in respect of reproductive health
services
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(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.