Queensland Consolidated Acts

ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMUNITIES (JUSTICE, LAND AND OTHER MATTERS) ACT 1984 - SECT 15

15 Indemnification of community police officer for liability for tort

(1) If—

(a) a community police officer incurs legal liability for committing a tort while acting, or purporting to act, in the execution of duty as an officer; and

(b) the officer acted honestly and without gross negligence;

the State may indemnify the officer for the liability.

(2) If—

(a) a community police officer incurs legal liability for helping, directly or indirectly, a person suffering, or apparently suffering, from illness or injury in circumstances that the officer reasonably considers to be an emergency; and

(b) the officer acted honestly and without gross negligence;

the State must indemnify the officer for the liability.