Tasmanian Consolidated Acts Tasmanian Consolidated Acts
(1) This section applies to a person who voluntarily, or as required by section 14 or section 18(3), informs the Secretary or a Community-Based Intake Service –
(a) that he or she knows, or believes or suspects on reasonable grounds, that a child has been or is being abused or neglected or that there is a reasonable likelihood of a child being killed or abused or neglected; or
(b) while a woman is pregnant, that he or she knows, or believes or suspects on reasonable grounds, that there is a reasonable likelihood that after the birth of the child –
(i) the child will suffer abuse or neglect, or will be killed by a person with whom the child is likely to reside; or
(ii) the child will require medical treatment or other intervention as a result of the behaviour of the woman, or another person with whom the woman resides, before the birth of the child; or
(c) of any further information in respect of such knowledge, belief or suspicion.
(2) A person –
(a) cannot, by virtue of informing the Secretary or a Community-Based Intake Service as specified in subsection (1), be held to have breached any code of professional etiquette or ethics, to have departed from any accepted standards of professional conduct or to have contravened any Act; and
(b) to the extent that he or she has acted in good faith, incurs no civil or criminal liability in respect of informing the Secretary or a Community-Based Intake Service as specified in subsection (1).