Building Act 1975

This section applies if a health professional reasonably believes that a young child has been involved in a pool immersion incident.

The health professional may give the chief executive (health) any relevant information about the young child’s condition and the incident.

The health professional is not liable, civilly, criminally, or under an administrative process, for giving the information under subsection (2).

Also, merely because the health professional gives the information, the health professional can not be held to have—

breached any code of professional etiquette or ethics; or

departed from the accepted standards of professional conduct.

Without limiting subsection (3) or (4), if the health professional would otherwise be required to maintain confidentiality about the information under an Act, oath or rule of law or practice, the health professional—

does not contravene the Act, oath or rule of law or practice by giving the information; and

is not liable to disciplinary action for giving the information.

In this section—

a person who is a health professional under the Hospital and Health Boards Act 2011;

an ambulance officer under the Ambulance Service Act 1991;

another person prescribed under a regulation for this section who, as part of the person’s profession or occupation, performs functions relating to the health of others.