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Protection from liability

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10 Protection from liability

(1)

An action in tort does not lie against a person for anything that the person has, in good faith, done in the performance or purported performance of a function under this Act or any other written law relating to gaming or a casino complex agreement.

(2)

If this section provides that an action does not lie against a person for doing anything, the Commission and the Crown are also relieved of any liability that either of them might otherwise have for the doing of the thing by the person.

(3)

The protection given by this section applies even though the thing done in the performance or purported performance of a function under this Act or any other Act or a casino complex agreement may have been capable of being done whether or not, as the case requires —

(a)

this Act or any other Act had been enacted; or

(b)

the casino complex agreement had been entered into.

(4)

In this section —

(a)

a reference to the doing of anything includes a reference to the omission to do anything; and

(b)

a reference to the performance of a function includes a reference to the performance of a duty and the exercise of a power.

[Section 10 inserted: No. 24 of 1998 s. 7; amended: No. 32 of 2022 s. 4.]

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