New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2010 - SECT 132

132 Exclusion of liability of the State and others

(1) This section applies to civil proceedings for damages or other compensation brought against the State or any authority of the State.

(2) Damages or other compensation is not payable in any such civil proceedings to which this section applies to the extent that the claim is based on alleged negligence, defamation or other breach of duty (including statutory duty) arising because of the exercise of, or the failure to exercise, in good faith any function under this Act.

(3) This section does not affect any entitlement to compensation expressly conferred by this Act.