Western Australian Current Acts

CHILDREN AND COMMUNITY SERVICES ACT 2004 - SECT 136G

136G .         No liability if parent or CEO consents

        (1)         A person who conducts, or who assists in conducting, a medical procedure or other act in relation to a child under a parentage testing order, or an order under section 136D, is not liable to any civil or criminal action in relation to the proper conducting of the procedure or act if it is done with the consent of —

            (a)         a parent of the child; or

            (b)         the CEO, if the child is in provisional protection and care or is the subject of a protection order (time-limited) or protection order (until 18).

        (2)         Subsection (1) does not affect any liability of a person for an act done negligently, or negligently omitted to be done, in relation to conducting the medical procedure or act.

        [Section 136G inserted: No. 49 of 2010 s. 36.]