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Rh :(b) any record kept by any person in subsection (1) and compiled in connection with a social services function, so far as the record relates to an individual whom the Director or protector has reason to believe is a vulnerable adult and has experienced, or is experiencing or at risk of, abuse, neglect or self‑neglect, or the record relates to a vulnerable adult whom the Director or protector has reason to believe has experienced, or is experiencing or at risk of, abuse, neglect or self‑neglect.

(4) A person who gives information to the Director or a protector as directed under subsection (2) or gives the Director or a protector acting under subsection (3) access to a record—
 * (a) is not, by virtue of doing so, to be regarded in any proceedings before a court or tribunal or in any other respect to have breached any code of professional etiquette or ethics, or to have departed from any accepted form of professional conduct; and
 * (b) to the extent the person has acted in good faith, incurs no civil or criminal liability in relation to the giving of the information or access to the record.

(5) If a person—
 * (a) fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with a direction given to the person under subsection (2) or to give access to a record to the Director or a protector acting under subsection (3); or
 * (b) obstructs another person from complying with a direction given under subsection (2) to that other person,

the person shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both.

(6) A person—
 * (a) who in compliance or purported compliance with a direction given under subsection (2) gives information to the Director or a protector; and