Report to be made in certain circumstances
23B Report to be made in certain circumstances
A health practitioner or a professional counsellor or social worker who believes on reasonable grounds that, in the interests of public safety, a person is not a fit and proper person to possess or use a prohibited weapon or body armour must report to a police officer the belief and the material facts on which the belief is based.
If a person, acting in good faith, makes a report under or in purported compliance with subsection (1):
the report is not to be taken to be a breach of confidence or of professional etiquette or ethics or of a rule of professional conduct; and
no civil or criminal liability is incurred by reason only of the making of the report.
In this section:
health practitioner means a person registered under the
Health Practitioner Regulation National Law to practise in a health profession, other than as:
a diagnostic radiographer in the diagnostic radiographer division of the medical radiation practice profession; or
a student.
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