Criminal Code Act 1899 - Queensland Legislation

Schedule 1 The Criminal CodePart 5 Offences against the person and relating to marriage and parental rights and dutiesChapter 26 Assaults and violence to the person generally—justification and excuse[s 281]281 Discipline of vehicleIt is lawful for a person in charge of a vehicle on a journey andfor any person acting by his or her authority to use, for thepurpose of maintaining good order and discipline on board thevehicle, such force as the person or such person acting by hisor her authority believes, on reasonable grounds, to benecessary, and as is reasonable under the circumstances.282 Surgical operations and medical treatment(1) A person is not criminally responsible for performing orproviding, in good faith and with reasonable care and skill, asurgical operation on or medical treatment of—(a) a person or an unborn child for the patient’s benefit; or(b) a person or an unborn child to preserve the mother’s life;if performing the operation or providing the medical treatmentis reasonable, having regard to the patient’s state at the timeand to all the circumstances of the case.(2) If the administration by a health professional of a substance toa patient would be lawful under this section, the healthprofessional may lawfully direct or advise another person,whether the patient or another person, to administer thesubstance to the patient or procure or supply the substance forthat purpose.(3) It is lawful for a person acting under the lawful direction oradvice, or in the reasonable belief that the advice or directionwas lawful, to administer the substance, or supply or procurethe substance, in accordance with the direction or advice.(4) In this section—health professional see the Hospital and Health Boards Act2011, schedule 2.medical treatment, for subsection (1)(a), does not includemedical treatment intended to adversely affect an unbornchild.Current as at 1 December 2014 Page 179