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MEDICAL TREATMENT PLANNING AND DECISIONS ACT 2016 (NO. 69 OF 2016) - SECT 74

Protection of medical research practitioner

    (1)     A medical research practitioner who, in good faith, administers a medical research procedure to a person and believes on reasonable grounds that the requirements of this Part have been complied with is not—

        (a)     guilty of an offence of assault or an offence against section 85; or

        (b)             liable for unprofessional conduct or professional misconduct; or

        (c)     liable in any civil proceeding for assault or battery; or

        (d)     liable for contravention of any code of conduct.

    (2)     Nothing in this section affects any duty of care owed by a medical research practitioner to a person.

Division 2—Approval and consent


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