Protection from personal liability
158 Protection from personal liability
An action in tort does not lie against a person for any thing that the person has done, in good faith, in the performance or purported performance of a function under this Act.
The Minister and the State are also relieved of any liability that either of them might otherwise have had for another person having done any thing as described in subsection (1).
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.
In this section, a reference to the doing of anything includes a reference to an omission to do anything.
To avoid doubt, subsection (1) applies to a function performed pursuant to an agreement referred to in section 157.
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