New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEALTH PRACTITIONER REGULATION NATIONAL LAW (NSW) - SECT 176F

176F Confidentiality of protected reports

(1) A person must not, directly or indirectly--

(a) disclose a protected report to another person that the person has obtained in the exercise of the person's functions under this Law; or

(b) make a record of, or disclose to another person, information contained in a protected report that the person has obtained in the exercise of the person's functions under this Law

: Maximum penalty--50 penalty units.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to the disclosure by a person of a protected report or information contained in a protected report--

(a) for the purpose of exercising functions under this Law; or

(b) to the Commission.

(3) A protected report may not be admitted or used in civil proceedings before a court other than with the consent of--

(a) the person giving the report; and

(b) the person the subject of the report.

(4) A person may not be compelled to produce a protected report, or to give evidence in relation to the report or its contents, in civil proceedings before a court.