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CIVIL LIABILITY ACT 2003 - SECT 49A Failed sterilisation procedures

CIVIL LIABILITY ACT 2003 - SECT 49A

Failed sterilisation procedures

49A Failed sterilisation procedures

(1) This section applies if, following a procedure to effect the sterilisation of an individual, the individual gives birth to, or fathers, a child because of the breach of duty of a person in advising about, or performing, the procedure.
Examples of sterilisation procedures—
tubal ligation and vasectomy
(2) A court can not award damages for economic loss arising out of the costs ordinarily associated with rearing or maintaining a child.