(1) In this section
—
official means —
(a) the
Minister; or
(b) the
Authority; or
(c) the
Director General; or
(d) an
inspector; or
(e) a
person employed in the department.
(2) In this section, a
reference to the doing of anything includes a reference to an omission to do
anything.
(3) An action in tort
does not lie against an official for anything that the official has done, in
good faith, in the performance or purported performance of a function under
this Act.
(4) The protection
given by subsection (3) applies even though the thing done as described in
that subsection may have been capable of being done whether or not this Act
had been enacted.