131Protection for persons acting in accordance with Act

131 Protection for persons acting in accordance with Act

131 Protection for persons acting in accordance with Act

(1) This section applies if a person, in good faith and with reasonable care and skill, does a thing—

(a) in accordance with this Act, or

(b) believing on reasonable grounds the thing is done in accordance with this Act.

(2) The person does not incur—

(a) civil liability for doing the thing, or

(b) criminal liability under this Act for doing the thing.

(3) The doing of the thing is not to be regarded as—

(a) a contravention of professional ethics or standards or principles of conduct applicable to the person’s employment, or

(b) unsatisfactory professional conduct or professional misconduct for the purposes of the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law.

(4) In this section, a reference to the doing of a thing includes a reference to an omission to do a thing.