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FAMILY COURT ACT 1997 - SECT 161

161 .         No liability for notification under section 159 or 160 — FLA s. 67ZB

        (1)         A person —

            (a)         must notify the CEO under section 159(2) or 160(2); or

            (b)         may notify the CEO under section 160(3) or (4); or

            (c)         may disclose other information under section 159(3) or 160(6),

                despite any obligation of confidentiality imposed on the person by this Act, any other written law, any other law or anything else (including a contract or professional ethics).

        (2)         A person is not liable in civil or criminal proceedings, and is not to be considered to have breached any professional ethics, in respect of a notification under section 159(2) or 160(2).

        (3)         A person is not liable in civil or criminal proceedings, and is not to be considered to have breached any professional ethics, in respect of a notification under section 160(3) or (4), or a disclosure under section 159(3) or 160(6), if the notification or disclosure is made in good faith.

        (4)         Evidence of a notification under section 159(2) or section 160(2), (3) or (4), or a disclosure under section 159(3) or 160(6), is not admissible in any court except where that evidence is given by the person who made the notification or disclosure.

        (5)         In this section —

        court means a court (whether of a kind referred to in section 8(a) or (b) or otherwise) and includes a board, tribunal or other body concerned with professional ethics.

        [Section 161 amended: No. 34 of 2004 Sch. 2 cl. 10(7).]



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