137Authority for medical practitioner to refer person or seek information without being punished

137 Authority for medical practitioner to refer person or seek information without being punished

(1)  A person’s PMP –

(a) may, despite any other law, refer the person, or make a request in relation to the person, to another person under this Act; and

(b) is not liable to any punishment under a law by virtue of having made a referral or request referred to in paragraph (a) ; and

(c) may not be sanctioned, censured, or otherwise penalised, by a person, or body of persons, whose function is to regulate the professional conduct of such a person, by reason only of having made a referral or request referred to in paragraph (a) .

(2)  A person to whom a referral, or request, referred to in subsection (1)(a) , in relation to a person is made by the person’s PMP –

(a) may, despite any other law, examine the person to whom the referral relates, or give to the PMP a copy of the medical records, or the information, to which the request relates; and

(b) is not liable to any punishment under a law by virtue of having examined the person or having given to the PMP a copy of the medical records or the information; and

(c) may not be sanctioned, censured, or otherwise penalised, by a person, or body of persons, whose function is to regulate the professional conduct of such a person, by reason only of having examined the person or given to the PMP a copy of the medical records or the information.