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135 Translation, interpreters, &c.
All persons exercising responsibilities under this Act are, as far as may be reasonably practicable in the circumstances, to ensure that any information required to be given to a patient or to a representative or support person of a patient is, if necessary through the assistance of an interpreter or an alternative or augmentative communication system, given or relayed in a language or form that the patient or, as the case may be, the representative or support person understands.
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