FAMILY COURT ACT 1997 - SECT 161
FAMILY COURT ACT 1997 - SECT 161
161 . No liability for notification under section 159 or 160 — FLA s. 67ZB
(1) A person —
(a) must
notify the CEO under section 159(2) or 160(2); or
(b) may
notify the CEO under section 160(3) or (4); or
(c) may
disclose other information under section 159(3) or 160(6),
despite any obligation
of confidentiality imposed on the person by this Act, any other written law,
any other law or anything else (including a contract or professional ethics).
(2) A person is not
liable in civil or criminal proceedings, and is not to be considered to have
breached any professional ethics, in respect of a notification under
section 159(2) or 160(2).
(3) A person is not
liable in civil or criminal proceedings, and is not to be considered to have
breached any professional ethics, in respect of a notification under
section 160(3) or (4), or a disclosure under section 159(3) or 160(6), if the
notification or disclosure is made in good faith.
(4) Evidence of a
notification under section 159(2) or section 160(2), (3) or (4), or a
disclosure under section 159(3) or 160(6), is not admissible in any court
except where that evidence is given by the person who made the notification or
disclosure.
(5) In this section
—
court means a court (whether of a kind referred to
in section 8(a) or (b) or otherwise) and includes a board, tribunal or other
body concerned with professional ethics.
[Section 161 amended: No. 34 of 2004 Sch. 2 cl.
10(7).]