(1)  This section applies if a person –

(a) answers a question or provides a report or information as required –

(i) by an assessment order; or

(ii) by an interim assessment order; or

(iii) by the Secretary under the authority of an assessment order or interim assessment order; or

(iv) otherwise under this Act; or

(b) provides a voluntary risk notification.

(2)  In so far as the person answers the question or provides the report, information or voluntary risk notification in good faith –

(a) the person does not thereby incur any civil or criminal liability; and

(b) the person cannot be held to have thereby breached any code of professional etiquette or ethics, or to have departed from any accepted standard of professional conduct or to have contravened any Act.

(3)  In this section –

voluntary risk notification means a notification referred to in paragraph (a) of the definition of  risk notification in section 3(1) .