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MOTOR VEHICLES ACT 1959 - SECT 148

148—Duty of health professionals

        (1)         Where a health professional has reasonable cause to believe that—

            (a)         a person whom he or she has examined holds a driver's licence or a learner's permit; and

            (b)         that person is suffering from a physical or mental illness, disability or deficiency such that, if the person drove a motor vehicle, he or she would be likely to endanger the public,

the health professional is under a duty to inform the Registrar in writing of the name and address of that person, and of the nature of the illness, disability or deficiency from which the person is believed to be suffering.

        (2)         Where a health professional furnishes information to the Registrar in pursuance of subsection (1), he or she must notify the person to whom the information relates of that fact and of the nature of the information furnished.

        (3)         A person incurs no civil or criminal liability in carrying out his or her duty under subsection (1).



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