Legislation

Section 7 – Other overarching duties: UN principles and convention

Introduction

This section provides limited legal effect to the UN Principles for Older Persons. The form the legal effect takes is that bodies exercising functions under this act must pay “due regard” to it. The official explanatory notes say: “Section 7 contains two duties. The first is a duty upon persons carrying out functions under the […]

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