Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (South Australia) Act 2010

Subject to this section, a health practitioner to whom this Division applies must not attend a callout to which this Division applies unless the health practitioner is accompanied by a second responder.

A second responder need not accompany a health practitioner attending a callout to which this Division applies during the journey to the place at which health services are to be provided in relation to the callout.

Subsection (1) does not apply—

if the place at which health services are to be provided in relation to the callout is prescribed premises; or

in any other circumstances prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this subsection.

For the purposes of subsection (1), a second responder accompanies a health practitioner attending a callout—

by being physically present with the health practitioner at any time the health practitioner is in the proximity of the person to whom health services are to be, are being, or have been, provided in relation to the callout; or

by taking action of a kind prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph.

For the purposes of this section, a second responder will be taken to be accompanying a health practitioner during the provision of health services to a person despite not being physically present with the health practitioner if—

the health practitioner is of the opinion that, having regard to the nature of the health services and the privacy of the patient, it is not appropriate for the second responder to be physically present during the provision of the health services; and

the second responder remains in the same premises as, and within the hearing of, the health practitioner during the provision of the health services.