Protection from personal liability
34 Protection from personal liability
No civil or criminal liability is incurred by an information official for anything that the information official has done, in good faith, in the performance or purported performance of a function under an information Act.
The protection given by this section applies even though the thing done as described in subsection (1) may have been capable of being done whether or not this Act had been enacted.
Despite subsection (1), the State is not relieved of any liability that it might have for an information official 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.
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