CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 1999 (NO. 63 OF 1999) - SECT 407 Immunity from suit
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 1999 (NO. 63 OF 1999) - SECT 407
Immunity from suit(1) This section applies to a person who is or has been—
(a) the chief executive; or
(b) an officer; or
(c) an authorised person; or
(d) someone acting under the direction or authority of the chief executive, an officer or an authorised person.
(2) No civil proceeding lies against a person to whom this section applies in relation to—
(a) an act done or omitted to be done in good faith and without negligence by the person in the exercise, or purported exercise, of a power or the performance, or purported performance, of a function or duty, under or in relation to this Act; or
(b) the provision by the person, in good faith and without negligence, of information or advice in relation to this Act or another Act, including an Act of the Commonwealth, a State or another Territory.
(3) Subsection (2) does not affect any liability that the Territory would, but for that subsection, have in respect of an act or omission mentioned in that subsection.