New Zealand Acts

MAORI FISHERIES ACT 2004 - SECT 206

206 Liability of employees and agents

1 A person who, at any time before the appointed day, held office as a member of the Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Commission or who was an officer, employee, agent, or representative of that Commission, is not personally liable in respect of an act or thing done or omitted to be done by him or her before the appointed day in the exercise or bona fide purported exercise of an authority conferred by or under the Maori Fisheries Act 1989 , the Treaty of Waitangi (Fisheries Claims) Settlement Act 1992 , or any other enactment.

2 This section applies only—

a) in the absence of actual fraud; and

b) if the act or omission does not amount to an offence under any enactment or rule of law.