Western Australian Current Acts

CHILDREN AND COMMUNITY SERVICES ACT 2004 - SECT 124BA

124BA .         Provisions for ministers of religion

        (1)         In this section —

        religious confession means a confession made by a person to a minister of religion in the minister’s capacity as a minister of religion in accordance with the tenets of the minister’s faith or religion.

        (2)         For the purposes of section 124B(1)(c)(i), a minister of religion who forms a belief on the basis of information disclosed to the minister in the minister’s capacity as a minister of religion is taken to form the belief in the course of the minister’s work.

        (3)         A minister of religion is not excused from criminal responsibility for an offence under section 124B(1) on the grounds that —

            (a)         the minister’s belief is based on information disclosed to the minister during a religious confession; or

            (b)         disclosure of the minister’s belief or information on which the belief is based is otherwise contrary to the tenets of the minister’s faith or religion.

        [Section 124BA inserted: No. 18 of 2021 s. 54.]