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Protection from liability

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Part 5Gathering information
Division 1Powers relating to information and documents

38 Protection from liability

If:

(a)

the Inspector, or a person assisting another person in the exercise of powers or performance of functions under this Act (an assistant), requests a person to give the Inspector or the assistant information or produce to the Inspector or the assistant a document under this Division and the person does so in the honest and reasonable belief that the request is permitted under this Division; or

(b)

the Inspector or an assistant requests a government agency to give the Inspector or the assistant information or produce to the Inspector or the assistant a document under this Division, and a person does so on behalf of the agency in the honest and reasonable belief that the request is permitted under this Division;

the person is not liable:

(c)

to any proceedings for contravening any other law because of that conduct; or

(d)

to civil proceedings for loss, damage or injury of any kind suffered by another person because of that conduct; or

(e)

to disciplinary action, or to a disciplinary sanction, of any kind because of that conduct.

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