Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

WASTE MANAGEMENT AND RESOURCE RECOVERY ACT 2016 (NO. 51 OF 2016) - SECT 124

    (1)     An official is not civilly liable for conduct engaged in honestly and without recklessness—

        (a)     in the exercise of a function under this Act; or

        (b)     in the reasonable belief that the conduct was in the exercise of a function under this Act.

    (2)     Any civil liability that would, apart from this section, attach to the official attaches instead to the Territory.

    (3)     In this section:

"conduct" means an act or omission to do an act.

"official" means—

        (a)     the waste manager; or

        (b)     an authorised officer; or

        (c)     anyone else exercising a function under this Act.