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Health Services Act 1988
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38A Immunity
S. 38A(1) amended by No. 52/2017 s. 15.
(1) A director of the board of a public hospital is not personally liable for anything done or omitted to be done in good faith—
(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.
S. 38A(2) amended by No. 52/2017 s. 15.
(2) Any liability resulting from an act or omission that would but for subsection (1) attach to a director of the board of a public hospital attaches instead to the public hospital.
S. 39 repealed by No. 52/2004 s. 13,
new s. 39 inserted by No. 52/2017 s. 16.