Ambulance Services (Amendment) Act 1979 (NSW)

AMBULANCE SERVICES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1979,

No. 155

A N N O V I C E S I M O O C T A V O

ELIZABETHE II REGINE

Act No. 155, 1979.

An Act to amend the Ambulance Services Act, 1976, with respect to the personal liability of ambulance officers. [Assented to, 10th December, 1979.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

1. This Act may be cited as the "Ambulance Services

(Amendment) Act, 1979".

2 .       The Ambulance Services Act, 1976, is amended—

(a) by inserting after section 5 (2) the following

subsection :—

(3) The Commission is, to the extent that it is not or has not been authorised by or under this or any other Act to do so, hereby authorised and deemed always to have been authorised to protect persons from injury or death, whether or not those persons are or were sick or injured.

(b)	by omitting from section 6 (2) (a) the words "provision of ambulance services" and by inserting instead the words "powers, authorities, duties and functions of the
Commission specified in section 5";

(c) by inserting after section 14 the following section :— 14A. (1) An officer, employee or servant of the Commission or honorary ambulance officer is not liable for any injury or damage caused by him before or after the commencement of the Ambulance Services (Amendment) Act, 1979, in the carrying out by him, in good faith, of any of his duties relating t o —

(a) the provision of ambulance services; or

(b) the protection of persons from injury or death, whether or not those persons are or were sick or injured.

(2) Nothing in subsection (1) affects section

13 (8) of the Health Commission Act, 1972.