Protection from liability for wrongdoing
114 Protection from liability for wrongdoing
In this section —
a reference to the doing of anything includes a reference to an omission to do anything; and
liability includes liability for defamation.
A person is not liable for anything that the person has done, in good faith, in the course of the operations of the Department or the administration of this Act.
The Crown is also relieved of any liability that it might otherwise have had for another person having done anything as described in subsection (2).
The protection given by this section applies even though the thing done as described in subsection (2) may have been capable of being done whether or not this Act had been enacted.
This section is subject to the Chattel Securities Act 1987 sections 24 and 25.
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