Western Australian Consolidated Acts

AUDITOR GENERAL ACT 2006 - SECT 45

45 .         Protection from liability

        (1)         No action or claim for damages lies against —

            (a)         the Auditor General; or

            (b)         any person acting on behalf of, or with the authority of, the Auditor General; or

            (c)         the independent auditor,

                for or on account of anything done or omitted, or ordered or authorised to be done or omitted — 

            (d)         under, or apparently under, this Act or any other written law; or

            (e)         for the purpose, or apparently for the purpose, of giving effect to this Act or any other written law.

        (2)         Subsection (1) does not apply if it is proved that the thing was done or omitted, or ordered or authorised to be done or omitted, maliciously and without reasonable and probable cause.