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Immunity from tortious liability

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187 Immunity from tortious liability

(1)

In this section —

official means —

(a)

the Minister; or

(b)

the Authority; or

(c)

the Director General; or

(d)

an inspector; or

(e)

a person employed in the department.

(2)

In this section, a reference to the doing of anything includes a reference to an omission to do anything.

(3)

An action in tort does not lie against an official for anything that the official has done, in good faith, in the performance or purported performance of a function under this Act.

(4)

The protection given by subsection (3) applies even though the thing done as described in that subsection may have been capable of being done whether or not this Act had been enacted.

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