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CIVIL LIABILITY AMENDMENT BILL 8 OF 2004

                                    TASMANIA


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              CIVIL LIABILITY AMENDMENT BILL 2004

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                                   CONTENTS
             1.   Short title
             2.   Commencement
             3.   Principal Act
             4.   Section 4 amended (Application of Act)
             5.   Section 21 amended (Proactive and reactive duty of
                  registered medical practitioner to warn of risk)




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CIVIL LIABILITY AMENDMENT BILL 2004 (Brought in by the Minister for Justice and Industrial Relations, the Honourable Judith Louise Jackson) A BILL FOR An Act to amend the Civil Liability Act 2002 Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows: Short title 1. This Act may be cited as the Civil Liability Amendment Act 2004. Commencement 2. This Act is taken to have commenced on the day on which the Civil Liability Amendment Act 2003 commenced. Principal Act 3. In this Act, the Civil Liability Act 2002* is referred to as the Principal Act. *No. 54 of 2002 [Bill 8] 3

 


 

s. 4 No. Civil Liability Amendment 2004 Section 4 amended (Application of Act) 4. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended as follows: (a) by omitting from subsection (2) "Part 5 applies" and substituting "Part 5 and section 12 apply"; (b) by omitting from subsection (2) "before" and substituting "before or after"; (c) by inserting the following subsection after subsection (2): (3) Part 6, other than section 12, and Parts 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 do not apply to a cause of action accrued before 4 July 2003. Section 21 amended (Proactive and reactive duty of registered medical practitioner to warn of risk) 5. Section 21(1) of the Principal Act is amended as follows: (a) by inserting "following" after "patient the"; (b) by omitting "information) -" and substituting "information):"; (c) by omitting from paragraph (a) "that" and substituting "information that"; (d) by omitting from paragraph (a) "advice; and" and substituting "advice;"; (e) by omitting from paragraph (b) "that" and substituting "information that". 4 Government Printer, Tasmania

 


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