Queensland Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 707

707 Protection from liability

(1) An Act entity is not civilly liable to someone for an act done, or omission made, honestly and without negligence under this Act.

(2) If subsection (1) prevents a civil liability attaching to an Act entity, the liability attaches instead to the State.

(3) This section does not apply to an act done, or omission made, for which liability is excluded under section 475 or 642 .

(4) In this section—

"Act entity" means the following—

(a) the commissioner;

(b) the committee, any member of the committee or a panel member;

(c) the Brisbane registrar and other registrars;

(d) a regulatory authority;

(e) an external intervener;

(f) the board;

(g) an employee or member of the staff of an entity mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (f) , including, for example, an investigator.

"civil liability" includes a liability for the payment of costs ordered to be paid in a proceeding for an offence against this Act.