New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MOTOR ACCIDENTS ACT 1988 - SECT 42A

42A Authority’s access to police information

(1) At the written request of the Authority with respect to a motor accident specified by it, the Commissioner of Police must provide a statement to the Authority in relation to the following matters if information as to those matters is held by a member of the Police Service:

(a) the registration numbers of all motor vehicles involved in the accident,

(b) the names of all persons killed or injured in the accident,

(c) the names of the hospitals to which the injured persons were taken,

(d) the vehicle or vehicles most likely to have been at fault in the accident.

(2) The Authority is authorised to give a copy of a statement provided to it under this section to the next of kin of a person killed in the accident or a person injured in the accident (or to an appropriate representative of either such person), or to an insurer.

(3) A statement or copy of a statement provided to or by the Authority under this section is not admissible in legal proceedings concerning a claim made under this Act.