Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011

An official is not civilly liable for anything done or omitted to be done honestly and without recklessness—

in the exercise of a function under this Act; or

in the reasonable belief that the act or omission was in the exercise of a function under this Act.

Any civil liability that would, apart from subsection (1), attach to an official attaches instead to the Territory.

In this section:

official means—

the commissioner; or

an independent advisor; or

a person authorised under this Act by the commissioner to do or not to do a thing.

Note A reference to an Act includes a reference to the statutory instruments made or in force under the Act, including any regulation (see Legislation Act, s 104).