(1) A person who is,
or has been —
(a) the
Minister, a Trustee, a member of the Committee, the Registrar, or an honorary
warden; or
(b)
acting under the direction or authority of the Minister, a Trustee, a member
of the Committee, the Registrar, or an honorary warden,
is not personally
liable for anything done, or omitted to be done, in good faith, in, or in
connection with, the exercise or purported exercise of any function under this
Act.
(2) An action in tort
does not lie against a person acting under an authority mentioned in
section 66(1) for anything that the person has done, in good faith, in the
performance or purported performance of a function to which the authority
applies.
(3) The protection
given by this section applies even though the thing done as described in
subsection (1) or (2) may have been capable of being done whether or not this
Act had been enacted.
(4) Despite
subsections (1) and (2), the State is not relieved of any liability that it
might have for another person having done anything as described in those
subsections.
(5) In this section, a
reference to the doing of anything includes a reference to an omission to do
anything.
[Section 67 inserted: No. 24 of 1995 s. 52;
amended: No. 8 of 2010 s. 8.]