14Provision of information to advisory panels

14 Provision of information to advisory panels

(1)  A person may provide information to an advisory panel.

(2)  A person who provides information to an advisory panel –

(a) cannot, by virtue of providing the information, be held to have breached any code of professional etiquette or ethics, to have departed from any accepted standards of professional conduct or to have contravened any Act –

(i) in relation to which the Department is the responsible Department; or

(ii) in relation to which another department, one of the primary functions of which relates to human health, is the responsible Department; and

(b) does not, to the extent that he or she has acted in good faith, incur any civil or criminal liability in respect of providing the information.

(3)  A person who is, or has been, a member of an advisory panel must not, either directly or indirectly, record, divulge or make use of information obtained by the panel that identifies, or that could reasonably be expected to lead to the identification of, the person to whom the information relates, except –

(a) to the extent necessary for the performance of the functions of that advisory panel; or

(b) in other prescribed circumstances.