CIVIL LIABILITY ACT 2002 - SECT 16

CIVIL LIABILITY ACT 2002 - SECT 16

16 .         Terms used

                In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears —

        client , of a lawyer, includes a person who makes a genuine inquiry of a lawyer about a personal injury;

        hospital includes —

            (a)         any premises used for receiving, caring for, or treating, persons who are injured, sick, or mentally ill; and

            (b)         any premises used for providing a service for maintaining, improving, or restoring, a person’s health and wellbeing; and

            (c)         any land or building occupied or used in connection with premises described in paragraph (a) or (b);

        law practice has the meaning given in the Legal Profession Uniform Law (WA) section 6(1);

        potential claimant means —

            (a)         a person who suffers, or may suffer, personal injury arising out of an incident; or

            (b)         another person who has, or may have, a claim arising out of that personal injury;

        printed publication includes a newspaper, magazine, journal, periodical, or directory;

        public place means a place or vehicle that —

            (a)         the public, or a section of the public, is entitled to use; or

            (b)         is open to, or is being used by, the public or a section of the public,

        whether on payment of money, through membership of a club or other body, or otherwise;

        publish means —

            (a)         to include in a printed publication; or

            (b)         to disseminate by the exhibition or broadcast of a photograph, slide, film, video recording, audio recording or other recording of images or sound, either as a public exhibition or broadcast or as an exhibition or broadcast to persons attending a place for the purposes of receiving professional advice, treatment, or assistance; or

            (c)         to broadcast by radio or for television; or

            (d)         to include on an internet website or otherwise publicly disseminate by means of the internet; or

            (e)         to publicly exhibit in, on, over, or under, any building, vehicle, or place, or in the air, in view of persons in or on any street or public place; or

            (f)         to include in a document gratuitously sent or delivered to any person or thrown or left on premises occupied by any person or left on a vehicle; or

            (g)         to include in a document provided to a person as a receipt or record for a transaction.

        [Section 16 amended: No. 65 of 2003 s. 19(2); No. 21 of 2008 s. 646(2); No. 9 of 2022 s. 339.]