Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Where any patient
who has attended or been treated by a medical practitioner or nurse
practitioner for a venereal disease in an infectious stage notifies in good
faith and without malice the practitioner of the names of any persons from or
to whom the patient considers the disease may have been contracted or
transmitted, no action for libel or slander shall lie —
(a)
against the patient for making the notification to the practitioner; and
(b)
where the practitioner, with the consent of the patient, communicates the
notification to the Executive Director, Public
Health — against the Executive Director, Public Health or the
patient for or in respect of the making of the communication to the Executive
Director, Public Health.
(2) A medical
practitioner, nurse practitioner or responsible pathologist who notifies the
Executive Director, Public Health under this Part incurs no civil liability as
a result, and is not to be regarded for any purpose as being in breach of any
duty of confidentiality.
[Section 300A inserted by No. 101 of
1976 s. 10; amended by No. 28 of 1984 s. 45; No. 23 of
2006 s. 9.]
[ 301-305. Deleted by No. 23 of 2006
s. 10.]