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FAMILY COURT ACT 1997 - SECT 199

199 .         No liability if parent etc. consents — FLA s. 69ZA

        (1)         A person who conducts, or who assists in conducting, a medical procedure or other act in relation to a child under a parentage testing order is not liable to any civil or criminal action in relation to the proper conducting of the procedure or act if it is done with the consent of —

            (a)         a parent of the child; or

            (b)         a guardian of the child; or

            (c)         a person who, under a parenting order, has responsibility for the child’s long-term or day-to-day care, welfare and development.

        (2)         Subsection (1) does not affect any liability of a person for an act done negligently, or negligently omitted to be done, in relation to conducting the medical procedure or act.

        [Section 199 amended: No. 35 of 2006 s. 163.]



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