Protection from liability
143 Protection from liability
An action in tort does not lie against a person for anything that the person has done, in good faith, in the performance or purported performance of a function under this Act or a function to which an authority mentioned in section 142(1) applies.
The protection given by subsection (1) 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.
Despite subsection (1), neither a permit authority nor the State is relieved of any liability that it might have for a person having done anything as described in that subsection.
In this section, a reference to the doing of anything includes a reference to an omission to do anything.
This section is in addition to the Local Government Act 1995 section 9.56.
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