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FORENSIC DISABILITY ACT 2011 No. 13 - SECT 154

154 Ensuring client understands things told or explained to the client

(1) If a provision of this Act requires a person to tell or explain something to a forensic disability client, the person must do so—

(a) in the language or way the client is most likely to understand; and
(b) in a way that has appropriate regard to the client's age, culture, disability and communication ability.
Example of way for paragraph (a) or (b)—
by using visual or other aids

(2) If the person believes the client has not understood what the person told or explained to the client, the person must record details of the fact in the client's file.



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