Queensland Consolidated Acts

ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ACT 1991 - SECT 265

265 Protection from civil actions—exercise of functions etc.

(1) A person who is or has been—

(a) the commissioner; or

(b) a member of the former Anti-Discrimination Tribunal; or

(c) the registrar of the former Anti-Discrimination Tribunal; or

(d) a member of the staff of the commission or the former Anti-Discrimination Tribunal; or

(e) a person acting under the direction or authority of the commissioner or a member of the former Anti-Discrimination Tribunal; or

(f) a person acting under a delegation under section 244 ;

incurs no civil liability for an honest act or omission in—

(g) the performance or purported performance of functions under this Act or the Human Rights Act 2019 ; or

(h) the exercise or purported exercise of powers under this Act or the Human Rights Act 2019 .

(2) A liability that would, but for this section, attach to a person mentioned in subsection (1) attaches instead to the State.