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PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS ACT 2023 - SECT 86

Protection of public officials from liability

    (1)     A public official is not civilly liable for conduct engaged in honestly and without recklessness—

        (a)     in the exercise of a function under this Act or another territory law; or

        (b)     in the reasonable belief that the conduct was in the exercise of a function under this Act or another territory law.

    (2)     Any liability that would, apart from this section, attach to the public official attaches instead to the Territory.



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