Western Australian Consolidated Acts

ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 1974 - SECT 101A

101A .         Protection of people testing or examining or giving certain information

        (1)         The protection given by this section is in addition to any protection given by section 101.

        (2)         Proceedings for an offence are not to be brought against a person for expressing to the Director General, in good faith, an opinion formed as a result of having carried out a test or examination under this Act.

        (3)         An action in tort does not lie against a person, and proceedings for an offence are not to be brought against a person, for reporting to the Director General, in good faith, information that discloses or suggests that —

            (a)         another person is or may be unfit to drive; or

            (b)         it may be dangerous to —

                  (i)         allow another person to hold a driver’s licence or learner’s permit; or

                  (ii)         grant a driver’s licence or learner’s permit to another person; or

                  (iii)         vary, or not to vary, another person’s driver’s licence or learner’s permit.

        [Section 101A inserted by No. 54 of 2006 s. 27.]