Protection from personal liability for persons exercising functions
247 Protection from personal liability for persons exercising functions
A person who is or was a protected person is not personally liable for anything done or omitted to be done in good faith —
in the exercise of a function under this Law; or
in the reasonable belief that the act or omission was the exercise of a function under this Law.
Any liability resulting from an act or omission that would, but for subsection (1), attach to a protected person attaches instead to ONRSR.
In this section —
protected person means any of the following:
a member of ONRSR;
a member of a committee of ONRSR;
a member of the staff of ONRSR;
a rail safety officer;
an authorised person;
a person to whom ONRSR has delegated any of its functions;
a person to whom an entity, or the chief executive of an entity or department of government, of a participating jurisdiction has subdelegated a function delegated to the chief executive by ONRSR;
a member of the staff of an entity or department referred to in paragraph (g);
a person acting under the authority or direction of a person referred to in paragraphs (a) to (h).
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