New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEALTH PRACTITIONER REGULATION NATIONAL LAW (NSW) - SECT 236A

236A Protection from personal liability for persons exercising functions under NSW provisions [NSW]

(1) A protected person is not personally liable for anything done or omitted to be done in good faith--

(a) in the exercise of a function under this Law; or

(b) in the reasonable belief that the act or omission was the exercise of a function under this Law.

(2) Any liability resulting from an act or omission that would, but for subsection (1), attach to a protected person attaches instead to the Council for the health profession on whose behalf, or in relation to which, the protected person was exercising functions.

(3) In this section--

"protected person" means a person exercising functions under a NSW provision.

Note--: This section is an additional New South Wales provision.