New Zealand Legislation: Acts

18 Doctors and optometrists to give Agency medical reports of persons unfit to drive

• (1) This section applies if a medical practitioner or optometrist, who has attended or been consulted in respect of a driver licence holder, considers that—

  • (a) the mental or physical condition of the licence holder is such that, in the interests of public safety, the licence holder—

    • (i) should not be permitted to drive motor vehicles of a specified class or classes; or

    • (ii) should only be permitted to drive motor vehicles subject to such limitations as may be warranted by the mental or physical condition of the licence holder; and

  • (b) the licence holder is likely to drive a motor vehicle.

  (2) If this section applies, the medical practitioner or optometrist must as soon as practicable give the Agency written notice of the opinion under subsection (1)(a) and the grounds on which it is based.

  (3) A medical practitioner or optometrist who gives a notice under subsection (2) in good faith is not liable to civil or professional liability because of any disclosure of personal medical information in that notice.

  (4) [Repealed]

  Compare: 1986 No 6 s 45A

  Section 18 heading: amended, on 1 August 2008, by section 50(1) of the Land Transport Management Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 47).

  Section 18(1): amended, on 18 September 2004, by section 175(1) of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (2003 No 48).

  Section 18(2): amended, on 1 August 2008, by section 50(1) of the Land Transport Management Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 47).

  Section 18(2): amended, on 18 September 2004, by section 175(1) of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (2003 No 48).

  Section 18(3): amended, on 18 September 2004, by section 175(1) of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (2003 No 48).

  Section 18(4): repealed, on 10 May 2011, by section 9 of the Land Transport (Road Safety and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2011 (2011 No 13).