New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

MEDICAL PRACTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 121

121 Offences

(1) A person must not:

(a) prevent an authorised person from exercising any function conferred or imposed on the authorised person under this Part, or

(b) hinder or obstruct an authorised person in the exercise of any such function, or

(c) without reasonable excuse, refuse or fail to comply with any requirement made or to answer any question asked by an authorised person under the authority of this Part, or

(d) furnish an authorised person with information knowing it to be false or misleading in a material particular.

Maximum penalty:

(a) for an offence under paragraph (a) or (b)--50 penalty units, or

(b) for an offence under paragraph (c) or (d)--20 penalty units.

(2) It is a sufficient defence to a prosecution for the offence of failing to answer a question asked by an authorised person if the defendant satisfies the court that the defendant did not know, and could not with reasonable diligence have ascertained, the answer to the question.