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Medical Treatment Planning and Decisions Act 2016
74Protection of medical research practitioner
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74 Protection of medical research practitioner
(1) A medical research practitioner who, in good faith, administers a medical research procedure to a person and believes on reasonable grounds that the requirements of this Part have been complied with is not—
(a) guilty of an offence of assault or an offence against section 85; or
(c) liable in any civil proceeding for assault or battery; or
(2) Nothing in this section affects any duty of care owed by a medical research practitioner to a person.
Division 2—Approval and consent