Summary Offences Act 1953

If a medical practitioner or a registered or enrolled nurse has reasonable cause to suspect in relation to a person who he or she has seen in his or her professional capacity that the person is suffering from a wound inflicted by a knife, the medical practitioner or nurse must, as soon as practicable after forming the suspicion, make a report to the prescribed person or body containing—

details of the wound; and

any information provided to the practitioner or nurse about the circumstances leading to the infliction of the wound (other than information tending to identify the person).

Subsection (1) does not apply if, in the opinion of the medical practitioner or the nurse, the injuries are not serious and the medical practitioner or nurse believes on reasonable grounds that the injuries were accidental.

A person incurs no civil or criminal liability in taking action in good faith in compliance, or purported compliance, with this section.

In this section—

to practise in the nursing profession as a nurse (other than as a student); and

in the enrolled nurses division of that profession;

to practise in the nursing profession as a nurse (other than as a student); and

in the registered nurses division of that profession.