Western Australian Current Acts

ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY ACT 2004 - SECT 120ZB

120ZB .         Immunity of participants and their officers or employees

        (1)         A participant, or an officer or employee of a participant, does not incur any civil monetary liability for an act or omission of the participant, a delegate of the participant or a delegate of the delegate, or an officer or employee of any of them, done or made in good faith in the performance, or purported performance, of a function under this Part.

        (2)         Subsection (1) has effect —

            (a)         in respect of all participants, and officers and employees of them, other than the Pilbara ISO, and officers and employees of it — subject to section 120ZC; and

            (b)         in respect of all participants, and officers and employees of them — subject to section 120ZD.

        (3)         An entity with which the Pilbara ISO enters into a contract in relation to the Pilbara ISO’s performance of a function under this Part does not incur any civil monetary liability for an act or omission of the entity, or an officer or employee of it, done or made in good faith in the performance, or purported performance, of the contract.

        (4)         Subsection (3) has effect subject to sections 120ZC and 120ZD, as if the reference in section 120ZD(1) to 12 months were a reference to 2 months.

        (5)         The Pilbara ISO or a preparing entity, or an officer or employee of either of them, does not incur any civil monetary liability for an act or omission of the Pilbara ISO or the preparing entity, or an officer or employee of either of them, done or made, including before the commencement of the Electricity Industry Amendment Act 2020 , in good faith in anticipation of, or in preparation or purported preparation for, the performance of a function under this Part.

        [Section 120ZB inserted: No. 9 of 2020 s. 19.]