Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (NSW)
236AProtection from personal liability for persons exercising functions under NSW provisions [NSW]
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236A Protection from personal liability for persons exercising functions under NSW provisions [NSW]
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.