Victorian Numbered Acts

HEALTH SERVICES (GOVERNANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY) ACT 2004 (NO 52 OF 2004) - SECT 12

After section 38 of the Principal Act insert —

        "38A.     Immunity

    (1)     A member of the board of a public hospital is not personally liable for anything done or omitted to be done in good faith—

        (a)     in the exercise of a power or the discharge of a duty under this Act; or

        (b)     in the reasonable belief that the act or omission was in the exercise of a power or the discharge of a duty under this Act.

    (2)     Any liability resulting from an act or omission that would but for sub-section (1) attach to a member of the board of a public hospital attaches instead to the public hospital.".