New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

MEDICAL PRACTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 85

85 Confidentiality of Panel's report

(1) A report by an Impaired Registrants Panel to the Board may not be admitted or used in any civil proceedings before a court.

(2) A person may not be compelled to produce the report or to give evidence in relation to the report or its contents in any such civil proceedings.

(3) A report referred to in this section is a "protected report" for the purposes of this Act.

(4) In this section:
"court" includes any tribunal, authority or person having power to require the production of documents or the answering of questions, but does not include the Tribunal, a Committee or a Performance Review Panel or the Supreme Court (in respect of appeal proceedings under this Act).
"report" includes a copy, reproduction and duplicate of the report or any part of the report, copy, reproduction or duplicate.