Victorian Current Acts

CHILD WELLBEING AND SAFETY ACT 2005 - SECT 41A

    (1)     A disclosure of information or documents made under this Part, or in compliance with a notice to produce or a notice to comply, in good faith—

        (a)     does not for any purpose constitute unprofessional conduct or a breach of professional ethics on the part of the person who made the disclosure; and

        (b)     does not make the person who made the disclosure subject to any liability in respect of the disclosure; and

        (c)     without limiting paragraphs (a) and (b), does not constitute a contravention of—

              (i)     section 141 of the Health Services Act 1988 ; or

S. 41A(1)(c)(ii) amended by No. 39/2022 s. 785.

              (ii)     section 730 of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022 .

S. 41A(2) inserted by No. 23/2021 s. 42(2).

    (2)     Despite anything to the contrary in this or another Act (other than the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities), a disclosure of information or documents that relate to the Child Safe Standards to a sector regulator or an integrated sector regulator made in good faith by any person—

        (a)     does not for any purpose constitute unprofessional conduct or a breach of professional ethics on the part of the person who made the disclosure; and

        (b)     does not make the person who made the disclosure subject to any liability in respect of the disclosure.

S. 41B inserted by No. 63/2016 s. 8, substituted by No. 23/2021 s. 43 (as amended by No. 32/2022 s. 61).