New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MOTOR ACCIDENTS COMPENSATION ACT 1999 - SECT 59A

59A Protection of medical assessors

(1) A matter or thing done or omitted to be done by a medical assessor under this Part in the exercise of the assessor’s functions does not, if the matter or thing was done or omitted in good faith, subject the assessor personally to any action, liability, claim or demand.

(2) A medical assessor is, in any legal proceedings, competent but not compellable to give evidence or produce documents in respect of any matter in which he or she was involved in the course of the exercise of his or her functions as a medical assessor.

(3) Any liability that would attach to a person were it not for the operation of subsection (1) attaches instead to the Crown.