Annu Rev Popul Law. 1988;15:168.
Among other things, this Act amends the New Zealand Hospitals Act 1957 to require the acting general manager of a hospital board to develop and publish an equal employment opportunities program and to ensure that the program is complied with. The acting general manager is also to furnish the Director-General with a report of the program and the extent to which the acting general manager was able to "meet" the program. The Act defines an equal employment opportunities program as "a programme that is aimed at the identification and elimination of all aspects of policies, procedures, and other institutional barriers that cause or perpetuate, or tend to cause or perpetuate, inequality in respect to the employment of any persons or groups of persons."
该法案除其他事项外，修订了1957年的《新西兰医院法案》，要求医院董事会代理总经理制定并公布平等就业机会计划，并确保该计划得到遵守。代理总经理还须向总干事提交一份关于该计划以及代理总经理在多大程度上能够“实现”该计划的报告。该法案将平等就业机会计划定义为“旨在识别和消除政策、程序及其他制度性障碍的所有方面，这些障碍导致或延续，或倾向于导致或延续在任何人或人群就业方面的不平等”。
