25
CurrentProtection from liability
Chapter 3Acts with Queensland registers
Part 1Bills of Sale and Other Instruments Act 1955
Division 2Transitional provisions
25 Protection from liability
(1)
An official continues to incur no civil liability after the repeal for an act done, or omission made, honestly and without negligence in the performance or purported performance of functions under the existing Act if—
(a)
the act was done or the omission was made before the repeal; or
(b)
the act was done or the omission was made after the repeal in relation to a matter that was authorised to be done under this division after the repeal.
(2)
If subsection (1) prevents a civil liability attaching to an official, liability attaches instead to the State.
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandumSecond reading speech
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