HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION ACT 2005 - SECT 100 Protection of officials from liability

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION ACT 2005 - SECT 100

    (1)     In this section:

"official" means—

        (a)     a commissioner; or

        (b)     a member of staff of the commission; or

        (c)     a person who exercises a function under this Act.

    (2)     An official, or anyone engaging in conduct under the direction of an official, is not personally liable for anything done or omitted to be done honestly and without recklessness—

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

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

    (3)     Any civil liability that would, apart from subsection (2), attach to an official attaches instead to the Territory.