* * * * * S. 27 amended by No. 9230 s. 6, repealed by No. 69/2009 s. 8(1). 28 Confessions to doctors Nos 3674 s. 28, 5183 s. 7. S. 28 (Heading) inserted by No. 69/2009 s. 8(2). * * * * * S. 28(1) amended by No. 7418 s. 2(a), repealed by No. 69/2009 s. 8(3). (2) No physician or surgeon shall without the consent S. 28(2) amended by of his patient divulge in any civil suit action or Nos 7418 proceeding any information which he has acquired s. 2(b), 10074 s. 6(a), in attending the patient and which was necessary 83/1987 s. 105, to enable him to prescribe or act for the patient. 67/2013 s. 649(Sch. 9 item 18(a)). (3) Where a patient has died, no physician or surgeon S. 28(3) inserted by shall without the consent of the legal personal No. 7418 representative or spouse of the deceased patient or s. 2(c), substituted by a child of the deceased patient divulge in any civil No. 10074 suit action or proceeding any information which s. 6(b). the physician or surgeon has acquired in attending the patient and which was necessary to enable the physician or surgeon to prescribe or act for the patient. (4) Subsection (3) shall cease to have any application S. 28(4) inserted by to or in relation to any civil suit action or No. 10074 proceeding at and from the time at which there is s. 6(b). no legal personal representative spouse or child of the deceased patient.
S. 27 amended by No. 9230 s. 6, repealed by No. 69/2009 s. 8(1). * * * * * Nos 3674 s. 28, 5183 s. 7. S. 28 (Heading) inserted by No. 69/2009 s. 8(2). 28 Confessions to doctors S. 28(1) amended by No. 7418 s. 2(a), repealed by No. 69/2009 s. 8(3). * * * * * S. 28(2) amended by Nos 7418 s. 2(b), 10074 s. 6(a), 83/1987 s. 105, 67/2013 s. 649(Sch. 9 item 18(a)). (2) No physician or surgeon shall without the consent of his patient divulge in any civil suit action or proceeding any information which he has acquired in attending the patient and which was necessary to enable him to prescribe or act for the patient. S. 28(3) inserted by No. 7418 s. 2(c), substituted by No. 10074 s. 6(b). (3) Where a patient has died, no physician or surgeon shall without the consent of the legal personal representative or spouse of the deceased patient or a child of the deceased patient divulge in any civil suit action or proceeding any information which the physician or surgeon has acquired in attending the patient and which was necessary to enable the physician or surgeon to prescribe or act for the patient. S. 28(4) inserted by No. 10074 s. 6(b). (4) Subsection (3) shall cease to have any application to or in relation to any civil suit action or proceeding at and from the time at which there is no legal personal representative spouse or child of the deceased patient.
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