Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity—ANZCA Continuing Professional Development Program) Notice 2009

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the notice, but is intended to indicate its general effect.

This notice, which comes into force on the day after the date of its notification in the Gazette, declares the quality assurance activity called the ANZCA Continuing Professional Development Program to be a protected quality assurance activity. The effect of this declaration is that, subject to certain exceptions,—

• any information that becomes known solely as a result of the activity is confidential; and

• any documents brought into existence solely for the purposes of the activity are confidential; and

• the persons who engage in the activity in good faith are immune from civil liability.

Under section 54(4) of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003, this notice remains in force for a period of 5 years after the date on which it is issued unless it is sooner revoked.

This notice revokes the Health Practitioners (Quality Assurance Activity: Anaesthetists—Maintenance of Professional Standards Program) Notice 2004, which has expired.