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PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELLBEING ACT 2008 - SECT 165CU Immunity

PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELLBEING ACT 2008 - SECT 165CU

Immunity

    (1)     This section applies to the following—

        (a)     the Chief Health Officer;

        (b)     a delegate of the Chief Health Officer;

        (c)     an authorised officer;

        (d)     a Detention Appeals Officer.

    (2)     A person to whom this section applies is not personally liable for anything done or omitted to be done in good faith, at a time when a pandemic declaration is in force, in relation to a pandemic disease or a disease of pandemic potential—

        (a)     in the exercise of a power or the discharge of a duty in relation to the pandemic disease or disease of pandemic potential—

              (i)     under this Part or under regulations or an instrument under this Part; or

              (ii)     under Part 10 or under regulations or an instrument under Part 10; or

        (b)     in the reasonable belief that the act or omission was in the exercise of a power or the discharge of a duty under this Part or Part 10, or under regulations or an instrument under this Part or Part 10, in relation to the pandemic disease or a disease of pandemic potential.

    (3)         Any liability resulting from an act or omission that would but for subsection (2) attach to a person attaches instead to the Crown.

S. 165CV inserted by No. 53/2021 s. 12.