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TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (ROAD USE MANAGEMENT) ACT 1995 - SECT 142

Health professional’s disclosure not breach of confidence

142 Health professional’s disclosure not breach of confidence

(1) A health professional is not liable, civilly or under an administrative process, for giving information in good faith to the chief executive about a person’s medical fitness—
(a) to hold, or to continue to hold, a Queensland driver licence; or
(b) to continue to be authorised to drive on a Queensland road under a non-Queensland driver licence.
(2) Without limiting subsection (1)
(a) in a civil proceeding for defamation, the health professional has a defence of absolute privilege for publishing the information; and
(b) if the health professional would otherwise be required to maintain confidentiality about the information under an Act, oath, rule of law or practice—
(i) the health professional does not contravene the Act , oath, rule of law or practice by disclosing the information; and
(ii) is not liable to disciplinary action for disclosing the information.
(3) In this section—

"health professional" means—
(a) a doctor; or
(b) a person registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law to practise, other than as a student, in any of the following—
(i) the occupational therapy profession;
(ii) the optometry profession;
(iii) the physiotherapy profession.

"information" includes a document.



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