Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) This section
applies to —
(a)
WorkCover WA; and
(b) a
member of the governing body of WorkCover WA; and
(c) an
officer of WorkCover WA; and
(d) a
person engaged under section 182B(2) as a conciliation officer or under
section 182ZQ(2) as an arbitrator; and
(e) a
member of a medical assessment panel; and
(f) an
approved medical specialist; and
(g) a
member of a specialised retraining assessment panel; and
(h) any
other person performing a function under this Act.
(2) An action in tort
does not lie against a person to whom this section applies for anything that
the person does or omits to do in good faith in the performance of a function
under this Act.
(3) The Crown is also
relieved of any liability that it might otherwise have had for a person having
done anything as described in subsection (2).
(4) The protection
given by this section applies even though the thing done as described in
subsection (2) may have been capable of being done whether or not this Act had
been enacted.
(5) In this section, a
reference to the doing of anything includes a reference to an omission to do
anything.
[Section 304, inserted as section 184: No. 42 of
2004 s. 135 and renumbered as section 304: No. 42 of 2004 s. 154(1); amended:
No. 31 of 2011 s. 70.]