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WITNESS PROTECTION ACT 1991 - SECT 20Q

Immunity of the Public Interest Monitor

    (1)     The Public Interest Monitor is not personally liable for anything necessarily or reasonably done or omitted to be done in good faith—

        (a)     in the performance of a duty or a function or the exercise of a power under this Act or any regulations made under this Act; or

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

    (2)     Any liability resulting from an act or omission that would, but for subsection (1), attach to the Public Interest Monitor attaches instead to the State.

Division 4—Reporting

S. 20R inserted by No. 34/2016 s. 20.



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