Queensland Consolidated Acts

TAFE QUEENSLAND ACT 2013 - SECT 57

57 Effect on legal relationships

(1) Nothing done under this part—

(a) makes a relevant entity liable for a civil wrong or a contravention of a law or for a breach of a contract or confidence; or

(b) makes a relevant entity in breach of any instrument, including an instrument prohibiting, restricting or regulating the assignment, novation or transfer of a right or liability or the disclosure of information; or

(c) except as provided for under a transfer regulation, is taken to fulfil a condition that—

(i) terminates, or allows a person to terminate, an instrument or obligation; or

(ii) modifies, or allows a person to modify, the operation or effect of an instrument or obligation; or

(iii) allows a person to avoid or enforce an obligation or liability contained in an instrument or requires a person to perform an obligation contained in an instrument; or

(iv) requires any money to be paid before its stated maturity; or

(d) releases a surety or other obligee, wholly or partly, from an obligation.

(2) If, apart from this subsection, the advice, consent or approval of a person would be necessary to do something under this part, the advice is taken to have been obtained or the consent or approval is taken to have been given unconditionally.

(3) If, apart from this Act, giving notice to a person would be necessary to do something under this part, the notice is taken to have been given.

(4) In this section—

"relevant entity" means—

(a) the State or an employee or agent of the State; or

(b) a relevant TAFE entity, a member of the relevant TAFE entity’s board, or an employee or agent of the relevant TAFE entity.