Queensland Numbered Acts

FAMILY RESPONSIBILITIES COMMISSION ACT 2008 No. 9 - SECT 95

(1) This section applies if a person, acting honestly, gives information or a record (the information) to the commission, the commissioner, the registrar or another entity--

(a) in compliance with this division; or

(b) otherwise under this Act.

(2) The person is not liable, civilly, criminally or under an administrative process, for giving the information.

(3) Also, merely because the person gives the information, the person can not be held to have--

(a) breached any code of professional etiquette or ethics; or

(b) departed from accepted standards of professional conduct.

(4) Without limiting subsection (2) or (3)--

(a) in a proceeding for defamation, the person has a defence of absolute privilege for publishing the information; and

(b) if the person would otherwise be required to maintain confidentiality about the information under an Act, oath or rule of law or practice, the person--

(i) does not contravene the Act, oath or rule of law or practice by giving the information; and

(ii) is not liable for disciplinary action for giving the information.