Protection from liability
127 Protection from liability
(1) A person is not civilly or criminally liable for an act done or omitted to be done by the person in good faith in the exercise of a power or performance of a function as either of the following:
an independent assessor;
a member of a code of conduct panel.
(2) Any civil liability that would, but for this section, attach to an independent assessor or a member of a code of conduct panel attaches instead to the local government council relevant to the matter with which the independent assessor or code of conduct panel is dealing.
In this section:
exercise of a power includes the purported exercise of the power.
performance of a function includes the purported performance of the function.
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