Victorian Current Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELLBEING ACT 2008 - SECT 227AA

    (1)         The Chief Health Officer, a delegate of the Chief Health Officer, an authorised officer appointed under section 30(1) or a Detention Appeals Officer is not personally liable for anything done or omitted to be done in good faith—

S. 227AA(1)(a) amended by No. 39/2024 s. 117.

        (a)         in the exercise of a power or the discharge of a duty under this Act or the regulations; or

        (b)         in the reasonable belief that the act or omission was in the exercise of a power or the discharge of a duty under this Act or the regulations.

    (2)         Any liability resulting from an act or omission that would but for subsection (1) attach to the Chief Health Officer, a delegate of the Chief Health Officer, an authorised officer appointed under section 30(1) or a Detention Appeals Officer attaches instead to the Crown.

    (3)     This section does not apply to anything done or omitted to be done to which section 165CU applies by a person to whom section 165CU applies.

Pt 11 Div. 4A (Heading and ss 227A, 227B) inserted by No. 53/2021 s. 17.

Division 4A—General provisions relating to assistance powers

S. 227A inserted by No. 53/2021 s. 17.