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CRIMES ACT 1958 - SECT 464ZH

Immunity of medical practitioners, nurses, midwives, dentists and other persons

No action lies against a medical practitioner or nurse or midwife or dentist or a person authorised under section 464Z or a person assisting the medical practitioner, nurse, midwife, dentist or person in respect of anything properly and necessarily done by the medical practitioner, nurse, midwife, dentist or person in the course of taking a DNA profile sample or conducting any forensic procedure which the medical practitioner, nurse, midwife, dentist or person believes on reasonable grounds—

S. 464ZH(a) inserted by No. 81/1997
s. 29(1)(d), substituted by No. 41/2004 s. 19, amended by No. 3/2019 s. 73(2).

        (a)     was requested to be taken from or conducted on another person under this Subdivision in accordance with—

S. 464ZH(a)(i) amended by No. 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 36.42).

              (i)     a request of a police officer given under section 464R; or

              (ii)     an authorisation given by a senior police officer under section 464SA ; or

S. 464ZH(a)(iia) inserted by No. 3/2019 s. 73(3).

        (iia)     a request given by a police officer under section 464SC; or

S. 464ZH(a)(iib) inserted by No. 3/2019 s. 73(3).

        (iib)     an authorisation given by a senior police officer under section 464SE ; or

S. 464ZH(a)(iic) inserted by No. 3/2019 s. 73(3).

        (iic)     a direction given by a police officer under section 464ZFAB; or

S. 464ZH(a)(iid) inserted by No. 3/2019 s. 73(3).

        (iid)     a senior police officer authorisation; or

S. 464ZH(a)(iie) inserted by No. 3/2019 s. 73(3).

        (iie)     an authorisation given by a senior police officer under section 464ZFAE ; or

              (iii)     an order made by a court under this Subdivision; or

S. 464ZH(b) inserted by No. 81/1997
s. 29(1)(d).

        (b)     was consented to by a person in accordance with sections 464ZGB to 464ZGD.

S. 464ZI inserted by No. 129/1993 s. 7, amended by No. 41/2004 s. 20 (ILA s. 39B(1)).



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