Second Session, Thirty-Eighth Legislature

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Bill 214

THE HEALTH SERVICES AMENDMENT ACT

(Assented to                                         )

HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:

C.C.S.M. c. H30 amended

1

The Health Services Act is amended by this Act.

2

The following is added after section 2:

Fundamental principles of health service delivery

2.1

This Act recognizes and requires that health services delivered under this Act must comply with the following fundamental principles:

(a) the program criteria set out in sections 7 to 12 of the Canada Health Act, which are

(i) public administration,

(ii) comprehensiveness,

(iii) universality,

(iv) portability,

(v) accessibility;

(b) the additional fundamental principle of accountability.

Coming into force

3

This Act comes into force on the day it receives royal assent.