A medical practitioner, dentist, authorised health professional or authorised nurse practitioner who notifies the Secretary under section 59B(1) or makes an application to the Secretary under section 59E  –

(a) cannot, by virtue of doing so, be held to have breached any code of professional etiquette or ethics, or to have departed from any accepted form of professional conduct; and

(b) insofar as he or she has acted in good faith, incurs no civil or criminal liability in respect of –

(i) so notifying or applying to the Secretary; or

(ii) the provision of further information.