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FAMILY VIOLENCE ACT 2004 - SECT 39 Protection from liability for voluntary or mandatory information

FAMILY VIOLENCE ACT 2004 - SECT 39

Protection from liability for voluntary or mandatory information

A person who (whether voluntarily or as required by section 38 ) informs a police officer that he or she believes, reasonably suspects or knows that family violence involving the use of a weapon, sexual violence or physical violence, or where a child is affected, has occurred or is likely to occur, or who provides any further information to a police officer in respect of such belief, suspicion or knowledge –
(a) cannot, by virtue of doing so, be held to have breached any code of professional etiquette or ethics, or to have departed from any accepted form of professional conduct; and
(b) insofar as he or she has acted in good faith, incurs no civil or criminal liability in respect of –
(i) so informing a police officer; or
(ii) the provision of further information.