New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PSYCHOLOGISTS ACT 2001 - SECT 74

74 Confidentiality of Panel’s report

(1) A report by an Impaired Registrants Panel to the Board may not be admitted or used in any civil proceedings before a court.

(2) A person may not be compelled to produce the report or to give evidence in relation to the report or its contents in any such civil proceedings.

(3) A person must not directly or indirectly make a record of or disclose to any person any information contained in a report by an Impaired Registrants Panel to the Board that has come to the person’s notice in the exercise of the person’s functions under this Act, except for the purposes of exercising functions under this Act.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

(4) This section does not prevent the disclosure of such a report to the Commission.

(5) In this section:
"court" includes any tribunal, authority or person having power to require the production of documents or the answering of questions, but does not include the Tribunal or the Board, or the Supreme Court (in respect of appeal proceedings under this Act).
"report" includes a copy, reproduction and duplicate of the report or any part of the report, copy, reproduction or duplicate.